Lean approach

This visit confirmed the importance of building a disciplined workforce. So, use 5S with a focus on safety improvement to build safety discipline. Look at 5S wearing your safety glasses and you will see this lean approach in a new light. It is a great foundation for world-class safety and world-class lean, or lean safety. 

Quick Guide Lean Approach to Incident and Accident Investigations... 

Lean Approach to Safety Program Activity Management... 

Companies on the journey to world-class safety use the lean approach of benchmarking other s practices to determine the best in class safety rules. Their concern is not how the employees may feel about the added safety rules, but rather a deep concern for the safety of their employees. As a result, they do not wait for mandated changes or changes driven by an accident investigation. Their safety rules changes are guided by a researched... 

This just-in-time approach generally precludes large batch production instead items are made in batches of one. This means that operators have to be flexible, the system has to be flexible and single minute exchange of dies (SMED) becomes the norm. A lean approach reduces the number of supervisors and quality inspectors. The operators are trained to know the production standards required and are authorized to take corrective action, in short they become their own inspectors/snpervisors. The principles of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and Five Ss (Sort, Set in place. Shine, Standardize and Sustain) are followed and as a result the equipment becomes more reliable and the operator develops ownership towards the equipment. 

Lean project management principles may have provided good measures to deal with the uncertainty of project work, but its apparent complexity is pushing project managers towards the lean approaches of supply chain management. This lean thinking approach to minimize waste in project supply chain is... 

Note that this approach assumes a supply chain point of view, not just a focus on manufacturing or any other segment of the supply chain. A well-known illustration of the importance of this point is that lean approaches have resulted in automotive manufacturing cycle times being compressed to a matter of hours. After manufacture, however, cars are stored in the distrihuhon pipeline or in dealer outlets for weeks, if not months. Lack of supply network thinking results in all of the cycle time investments in manufacturing being wasted. 

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