Lean (also known as Toyota Production System or TPS)

Improve Velocity, Reduce Waste

Lean (also known as Toyota Production System or TPS) is about doing more with less. Lean aims to create precise customer value by delivering quality goods and services with less resources, time, human effort, space and capital. Lean achieves this objective by focusing on what creates value for the customer and eliminating activities that do not create value. The 5 key Lean principles are as follows:

The 5 Key Lean Principles

• Value - Specify value from the standpoint of the customer
• Value stream - Identify all the steps in the value stream, and eliminate any step that does not create value
• Flow - Make the remaining value-creating steps occur in a tight and integrated sequence so the product or service will flow smoothly toward the customer.
• Pull - As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity.
• Pursue perfection - As these steps lead to greater transparency, enabling further elimination of waste, pursue perfection through continuous improvement.

(Reference: Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones, 1996)

Benefits of Lean Implementation

• Streamlines Processes
• Reduces waste or non value add activities
• Improves Velocity (lead time) - reduces delay and idle time
• Reduces cost of operations
• Reduces inventory
• Improve productivity
• Improves customer satisfaction
• Improves Profits

Application of Lean in different inductries and sectors

Lean has been implemented in both the manufacturing and service industries with great success. Some of the industries/ sectors are listed as follows:

• Manufacturing
• Services:
• • Banks
  • Financial Institutions
  • Healthcare
• MRO Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) Operations
• Public Service and Government
• Aerospace

Application of Lean for business processes, office, adminstration and support processes

Lean is applicable not only to the core processes of both manufacturing & non-manufacturing (services), but also to the Office, administration and support processes including:

• Sales
• Administration
• Customer Service
• Human Resource
• Call Centre
• Training
• Accounts
• Finance
• Purchasing

Kaizen Consulting Group's Lean Training & Consultancy Services

Our Lean training and consultancy services include:

• Lean Thinking Training 
• Lean Executive Overview Training 
• Lean Champion Programme 
• Lean Master Programme 
• Lean Expert Programme 
• Lean Practitioner Programme 
• Value Stream Mapping & Analysis Workshop 
• 5S & Visual Management Training 
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Training 
• Lean for Service 
• Lean Kaizen Event Implementation 
• Lean Project Coaching & Facilitation 

Why Kaizen Consulting Group?

We customise our services according to your organisation’s unique needs through:

• Detailed diagnosis of your improvement needs
• A result oriented project-based approach
• Integrated training, project & consulting
• In-depth training and application of the most useful Lean tools
• On-site project coaching and facilitation
• Guaranteed results and improvement

Note: Kaizen Consulting Group is a Seagate approved consultant under the Seagate Global Lean Supplier Programme.

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