Lesson 3 Flashcards
What is Lean Production/Manufacturing
it is aimed at the elimination of waste in every area of production including customer relations, product design, supplier network, and factory management
- Core Goal: Reducing lead time by reducing waste
Also:
Improves quality
Reduces Cost
Improving Morale
Improving Safety
What is Lean?
Pioneered by Toyota, focuses on the efficient operation of the entire value chain
Focus areas for Lean?
Remove non-value-added steps to:
- Reduce cycle time
- Improve quality
Align production with demand
Reduce inventory
Improve morale, process safety and efficiency
What is Six Sigma?
Developed my Motorola can be defined as:
- Measure of process capability
- Disciplined methodology
Focus Area for Six Sigma
Improving quality by controlling variation
What is Lean Six Sigma?
is a combination of two powerful and proven process improvement methods Lean and Six Sigma, that build on existing organization capability in quality, statistics, and project execution
What is KANO analysis?
is a quality measurement tool used to prioritize customer requirements based on their impact on customer satisfaction. used to determine which requirements are important.
Four types of Customer needs
- ‘surprise and Delight’ factors. These really make your product stand out from the others.
- The ‘More is Better
- The ‘Must be’ things. without this you will never sell the product
- ‘Dissatisfiers’ the things that cause your customers not to like your products
Types of Waste
Inventory
Overproduction
Material Movement
Overprocessing
Waiting
Correction
Motion
Stockless production
making only what is needed, when it is needed, and in the amount needed. the goal is to minimize the presence of non-value-adding operation and non-moving inventories in the production line.
Jidoka
“Automation with a human touch”
Quality is built during the manufacturing process.
When a problem occurs, the equipment stops immediately, preventing defective products from being produced.
