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People usually consider lean limited to objective of reducing waste in manufacturing operations. This includes techniques like Kanban,5S, Andon, Pokayoke etc. while tools for areas like organizational systems, Product development, HR, Planning, R&D are usually ignored, what's your opinion on this?
Organize the work area.
Eliminate waste that results from a poorly organized work area.
Problem solving methodology, resolving the underlying problem instead of quick fixes that only treat immediate symptoms of the problem.
Help to ensure that a problem is truly eliminated by applying corrective action to the “root cause” of the problem.
Template to document the problem, the analysis, the corrective actions and action plan on single sheet.
A structured and useful problem-solving template. Acts as a storyboard “one pager.”
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control processes.
Data driven strategy used to improve processes.
Strategy where staff work together proactively to engage in identifying inefficiencies and building new and improved process.
Combining collective talents of an organization to continually identify and eliminate waste from processes.
Lean defined.
High-level overview of Lean principles and pillars.
Template to scope a Lean process improvement effort.
Detailed document identifying goals, process owners, stakeholders, etc. as a Lean process improvement project begins.
Find problems and solve them.
The first step to solving an issue is to properly define the problem.
Visual presentation of the steps in a process.
Typically one of the first steps in a process improvement effort is to map the steps.
Problem solving methodology.
Continuous improvement through iterative 4 step process.
A process to improve cycle times and productivity.
Visually separate value adding activities from those that are non-value add.
Asking a series of questions to identify activities with value add.
Focusing on the process, pose a series of questions, the answers will assist in identifying value add versus non-value add activities.
Non-value add activities defined.
Descriptions and countermeasures to address waste processes.
To fix the problem, you must first see the waste.
Immersing individuals into the work area to identify first hand presence of non-value add activities.
