To understand how to apply Lean in any organization, you should know the basics: the principles, the definitions of value and waste, how to lead effectively, and how to define and improve the value stream. You should also be aware of how a Lean leader thinks and acts.
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What is Lean?
Lean is a customer-centric methodology used to continuously improve any process through the elimination of waste in everything you do; it is based on the ideas of “Continuous Incremental Improvement” and “Respect for People.”
Focus on the fundamentals
The basic principles of Lean are
Focus on effectively delivering value to your Customer
Respect and engage the people
Improve the Value Stream by eliminating all types of waste
Maintain Flow
Pull Through the System
Strive for Perfection
Your customer tells you what they value
You customer defines value or value-added with the following three conditions:
It must transform the product or service.
The customer must be willing to “pay” for it.
It must be done correctly the first time.
If you don’t meet all three of these criteria, then you have non-value-added activities or waste.
What’s “waste” anyway?
Waste comes in three main forms:
Mura or waste due to variation
Muri or waste due to overburdening or stressing the people, equipment or system
Muda also known as the “seven forms of waste”
The following are the wastes most commonly associated with Lean:
Transportation: Is there unnecessary (non-value-added) movement of parts, materials, or information between processes?
Waiting: Are people or parts, systems or facilities idle — waiting for a work cycle to be completed?
Overproduction: Are you producing sooner, faster, or in greater quantities than the customer is demanding?
Defects: Does the process result in anything that the customer would deem unacceptable?
Inventory: Do you have any raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP), or finished goods that are not having value added to them?
Movement: How much do you move materials, people, equipment, and goods within a processing step?
Extra Processing: How much extra work is performed beyond the standard required by the customer?
Sometimes you will also hear “the disengagement of people" identified as a form of muda.
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Behaviors of a Lean Leader
Lean leaders effectively exhibit the following behaviors every day. They know how the business serves the customer by
Understanding what customers want, need, and value, or what will thrill them
Knowing how the business satisfies the customer
Improving the effectiveness of how the business satisfies the customer
They build ability in the people through
Guiding problem solving — root cause, right problem, right resources
Leading from gemba; applying 3Gen
Asking open-ended, probing questions
They show a continuous improvement mindset by
Continually challenging the status quo
Knowing that there is always room for improvement
Understanding that the customer changes — what delights today is a necessity tomorrow
They focus on process and results by
Obtaining results
Ensuring that how the results are achieved is the most effective utilization of all resources, in the direction of the ideal state
Improving how the organization accomplishes results
They demonstrate an understanding of the value stream at a macro and micro level through
Knowing what the customer requires and how the value stream satisfies them
Having knowledge of the overall value stream, including tributaries
Asking questions when changes are made at the local level to ensure that the team understands how the change will impact the customer and the rest of the value stream
They create a culture to sustain improvement by
Identifying, modeling, and encouraging Lean behaviors
Finding the lessons in every “failure” — blame does not foster improvement or innovation
Respecting and improving standards — questions when the organization is deviating from the standard
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Leading a Lean Organization
To create a sustaining Lean organization, you lead differently. Lean leaders lead from gemba, where the action happens. They know the only way to truly understand what is happening is to go to the place where the action occurs. Once there, they apply 3Gen or the 3 Actuals:
genchi — (like gemba) go to the actual place
genbutsu — observe the actual product, process or service
genjitsu — gather actual facts
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Using Lean to Define and Improve the Value Stream
The value stream includes all of the activities, materials, people, and information that must flow and come together to provide your customer the value they want, when they want it and how they want it. You identify the value stream on a value-stream map, using specific icons.
You improve the value stream by following the Plan-Do-Check-Act process (sometimes called the Plan-Do-Study-Act process). The 3P Methodology (Production Preparation Process) is used upfront to design products and processes before they are in the final form. By creating an environment of safety and order, you can more easily identify where waste happens. The process for this environment is sort, straighten, scrub, systematize, and standardize while eliminating any unsafe conditions; this is known as 5S+.
Example value-stream map (VSM)
When you have created your VSM, you will identify areas for improvement. Here is an example of a VSM showing the current state of the process and several potential areas for improvement.
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The current-state VSM markup for a salad company.
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Defining Waste in the Lean System
Waste comes in three main forms:
Mura or waste due to variation
Muri or waste due to overburdening or stressing the people, equipment or system.
Muda also known as the “seven forms of waste”.
The following are the wastes most commonly associated with Lean.
Transportation: Is there unnecessary (non-value added) movement of parts, materials, or information between processes?
Waiting: Are people or parts, systems or facilities idle - waiting for a work cycle to be completed?
Overproduction: Are you producing sooner, faster or in greater quantities than the customer is demanding?
Defects: Does the process result in anything that the customer would deem unacceptable?
Inventory: Do you have any raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP) or finished goods that are not having value added to them?
Movement: How much do you move materials, people, equipment and goods within a processing step?
Extra Processing: How much extra work is performed beyond the standard required by the customer?
Sometimes you will also hear “the disengagement of people" identified as a form of muda.
Muda comes in two flavors called Type-1 muda and Type-2 muda. What’s the difference? In both cases it fails to meet all three criteria for value-added as defined by your customer.
Type I muda — Non-value added, but necessary for the system to function. Minimize this until you can eliminate it.
Type II muda — Non-value added and unnecessary. Eliminate this first!
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The Kaizen Project PDCA, or PDSA, Cycle of Lean
The term Kaizen is derived from two Japanese characters; kai, meaning “change” and zen meaning “continuous improvement.” Eliminating waste in the value stream is the goal of Kaizen. The PDCA (or PDSA) Cycle is the Lean working structure –the system for executing Kaizen. The acronym stands for:
Plan.
Create a plan for change, identifying specifically what you want to change. Define the steps you need to make the change, and predict the results of the change.
Do.
Carry out the plan in a trial or test environment, on a small scale, under controlled conditions.
Check (or study).
Examine the results of your trial. Verify that you’ve improved the process. If you have, consider implementing it on a broader scale. If you haven’t improved the process, go back and try again.
Act.
Implement the changes you’ve verified on a broader scale. Update the standard operating procedures.
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