Be Confident and Resilient with these Proven Lean Techniques
Experience shows – use of Lean quality techniques cuts out wasted effort and wasted time, so you achieve more of value. ‘Simplicity’ is the keyword!
How the Lean topics hang together:
Jidoka & House of Quality
Start with Jidoka -ensure quality is built-in at every stage, then look at the 2 important Lean principles.
Value Stream Mapping & 3 Types of Activity
Use this to cut out waste activities, then discover the 8 wastes, and try Waste Walks
Process Management & Red Bead Experiment
Adopt the discipline to manage your activities well, see the lessons of the Red Bead Experiment.
Your Way of Working & Continual Improvement
Take a look at Kaizen, Gemba and the Continual improvement process
Hoshin Kanri
Explore this to see how your strategic aims guide every action in the workplace.
A3 Reports & DMAICT
Based on the plan-do-check-act cycle, this is the practice of problem-solving on a single sheet of A3 paper.
Poka Yoke (Mistake-Proofing
Learn the art of reducing waste activity in your work by mistake-proofing