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A3 Problem Solving

2 Comments / Lean Manufacturing / Erik Hansen

This article describes how to work with A3 Problem Solving. A3 problem solving is a method used to solve problems. The different steps in the A3 problem solving can be arranged in a A3 sheet, hence the name. You can get the template from the below download button. It is important that it is a […]

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Value Stream Mapping Symbols

2 Comments / Lean Manufacturing / Bharathkumar Radha Krishna

Value stream mapping symbols are the most vital part of Value Stream Mapping (VSM). In this article you can download all symbols used in VSM and can use in value stream mapping. Also you can also download an Excel file, which has all symbols, which can be used for drawing VSM easily using Microsoft Excel.

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Excel 5 why template

1 Comment / Lean Manufacturing / Tiago Aparecido Rodrigues Rita

5 Why or why why analysis is a methodology to support finding the root cause of problems. In this article you will get a excel 5 why template filled with an example. And the example is demonstrated in this article. We are doing why why analysis in-depth here. Really in-depth. So let’s get started… Before

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Formula for Takt time

1 Comment / Lean Manufacturing / Meet Maheshwari

Formula for takt time is available time divided by customer demand. This is explained with example calculation. Excel template!

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7+1 wastes: How to spot waste and get rid of it

1 Comment / Lean Manufacturing / Erik Hansen

When referring to waste people immediately think of either material waste or garbage. But there exists another kind of waste. The kind that wastes our time. And those kind of wastes are the ones that we hunt as Lean practitioners. The so called 7+1 wastes. But before we go into the wastes we need to discuss

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Poka Yoke

1 Comment / Lean Manufacturing / Jay Desai

In this article we will discuss all about Poka Yoke. Poka Yoke is a method or tool for avoiding mistakes or error. You can imagine what will happen if there is no error or mistakes in this world !!!. Yes, that’s the importance of poka yoke. We will be discussing about mistakes, principles of error,

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Flow in a manufacturing industry

Leave a Comment / Lean Manufacturing / Melvin Vincent

A flowing river will be pure than stagnant water, since pure water will be coming into it from the source and contaminated water is replaced with pure water in it. Just reminded the importance of flow. With this example lets move to flow in a manufacturing industry. Let’s start … What is flow Flow is

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Muda, Mura and Muri

3 Comments / Lean Manufacturing / Nalini Kumari

These three names, Muda, Mura and Muri do not sounds familiar to our normal language slang because these are the Japanese words. Muda is the Japanese word for waste, Mura is the Japanese word for unevenness and, Muri is the Japanese word for Overburden. These words represents anything, which is against lean manufacturing. So, initially

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Value Stream Mapping (VSM) – All things you should know

4 Comments / Lean Manufacturing / Mahammad Rafi

The ultimate aim of value stream mapping (VSM) is to save money or reduce production cost. To save money, we need to initially identify which all things or activities are consuming money without delivering any value to the customer. I think you all know what is a value, its anything which customer is willing to pay for.

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How a lean practitioner think?

Leave a Comment / Lean Manufacturing / Melvin Vincent

Thinking process of a lean practitioner will be explained in this article, in 4 steps. How a lean practitioner think for achieving lean manufacturing. Before discussing how a lean practitioner think, we shall discuss what is lean. In this article we will take manufacturing industry as example. One request, before leaving this article please write

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