Lean Development

     
 

Five Principles of Lean Development.

1. Specify value from the standpoint of the end customer by product family.
2. Identify all the steps in the value stream for each product family, eliminating whenever possible those steps that do not create value.
3. Make the value-creating steps occur in tight sequence so the product will flow smoothly towards the customer
4. As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity.
5. As value is specified, value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed, and flow and pull are introduced, begin the process again and continue it until a state of perfection is reached in which perfect value is created with no waste.

  

Lean Accounting

One of the keys to successful implementation of any change program is to make your changes visible through your accounting system so variances to plan show up as variances to budget. Further, extending accounting responsibility to scorecards provides the visibility needed to ensure success. Transactional Lean or lean thinking applied to office and service processes reduces errors, improves throughput, and reduces non-value added processes.

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Lean Human Resource

Our Team Members have the knowledge, expertise and motivation to deliver excellent customer service - everyday.

Whether our customers meet with a sales consultant, talk with an office representative, or have a visit from our lean experts, they will find that each Exercise Lean member is focused on satisfying their needs.

Lean Engineering

Our consultants are trained in the following disciplines to assist you in your lean journey:

  • Design for Lean
    Total Productive Maintenance
    Tooling and quick changeover (SMED)
    Safety and Ergonomics
    Layout optimization
    FMEA
    SPC/DOE
    Poka-Yoke (mistake proofing)
    Jidoka (automation with intelligence)

Lean Quality Management

Managing quality in your role means that you must first understand the specific quality expectations of your customer and then put a proactive plan in place to meet those expectations. The "proactive plan" contains a number of elements -- the most important of which are the quality control and quality assurance activities that need to be performed