A Lean Manufacturing Consultant Eliminates Waste
The raison d'etre of any lean manufacturing consultant is to drive out waste, or as the Japanese refer to it "muda".
A lean manufacturing consultant from Executive Interims can provide pragmatic implementation support and expert advice utilising a range of lean manufacturing tools and techniques, which eliminate waste.
There are eight generic types of waste. One way to remember them is to use the mnemonic "Tim Woods".
Transport |
Moving materials, people or information |
Inventory |
Storing materials or information |
Motion |
Lifting, bending, reaching, turning |
Waiting |
Stopping for materials or information |
Over-production |
Producing more than customers require |
Over-processing |
Producing higher quality than required |
Defects |
Scrap, rework or incorrect information |
Skills |
Higher quality resources than required |
However, without training its not sensible to simply empower employees to be "waste killers" because eliminating what appears to be "waste" from a sub-system may actually create more waste for the system, when considered in its entirety. So any lean manufacturing consultant has to be familiar with generic business processes and more specifically have the expertise to map processes in their entirety, to identify sources of waste.
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