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If you want to reduce your work in progress and finished goods inventories by 50% and your lead times by the same amount, and at the same time reduce labour costs by between 20-30% instead of spending millions on "all-singing-all-dancing" super-machines and automation lean thinking can have a massive impact on your business.
As businesses mature, their operational procedures develop incrementally. A step here, to make that job a bit easier, and a change over there, to make this task simpler. Unfortunately what simplifies a step at a local level, can make the overall system more complicated. So much so, that as ANY business develops it acquires waste (or "muda" as the Japanese refer to it).
fact, in a batch manufacturing environment, when you add up the time that it takes to manufacture a product from the time that the raw materials enter the business to the time the finish product leaves the factory gate, the chances are that of that elapsed time, less than 10%, has been spent adding value to it (yes less than 10%). The rest of the time the raw materials have been sat in the stores, queuing at machines, being inspected, waiting for the right tooling, waiting for the right documentation, until they finally end up waiting in the finished goods stores.
Lean manufacturing is about eliminating eight forms of waste and crucially lean manufacturing consultants make holistic step-change improvements for which Toyota is used as the benchmark with up to 50% of total lead-time, spent adding value.
Lean manufacturing principles were pioneered originally by Henry Ford, and subsequently refined in the Toyota Production System.
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