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.

Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice

In addition to providing lean manufacturing consultants we also provide former "Big Four":

supply chain consultants
purchasing consultants and procurement consultants
logistics consultants including: supply chain planning & control & also warehousing, distribution &
transport consultants
etc.

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If you'd like to know more about what a lean manufacturing consultant can do for your business, contact us to explore the subject further. Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is a specialist provider of interim management and supply chain consultancy services.