If your business doesn’t currently utilize 5S for lean manufacturing, you’re likely doing your brand a disservice. The 5S program helps you orient your workspace for success. By eliminating waste, removing unnecessary items, and focusing on visual cues, you can set the quality standard for your work area and continue to excel daily.
Shakespeare once wrote that “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Well, the same could be said about leadership. Not everyone is born a great leader, but when you have leadership thrust upon you, will you be able to step up to the task?
Having a strong plan in place when it comes to supply chain management is vitally important to your success as a business, to be sure, but also as it pertains to your customer satisfaction. There are several factors involved in crafting an effective logistics plan, including automation, coordination and delivery time.
Lean management principles have been used effectively within manufacturing companies for many decades now, particularly in Japan, with such lean principles being successfully applied to the delivery of healthcare in this country as well, says the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
The healthcare system that exists today in America is a complex web of contradiction. On one hand, it offers amazing advances in technology and treatment, but on the other, it’s continually overburdened by errors, inefficiencies, resource constraints and other issues threatening the safety and accessibility of patient care.
A value stream map makes it easier to visualize the process that must be utilized to get value to the end customer. Functional teams within your organization can visualize their group’s work and information flow so everyone can see it and have access to it. In turn, they can understand and improve the process flow for creating a particular product or service.