5 reasons to adopt Lean Manufacturing tools in your company

For a long time, it was believed that Lean Manufacturing tools were just one of several business management options that promised to deliver efficient management methods.

It was also understood that the Lean could be applicable exclusively to the automobile industries, since this system originated in one of them, Toyota.

However, the efficiency of the tools of Lean Manufacturing was verified for both productive sectors and automotive industries, as well as for companies of the most different segments, even of services.

Did you know that already exists a specialization in Lean Healthcare for excellence in hospital management? In other words, regardless of your company segment, size, area or industry, Lean Manufacturing principles, fundamentals and tools can - and I dare to say they should - be deployed!

The tools of Lean Manufacturing are so useful because they are not only to be used in a management methodology. Lean is a philosophy with principles and fundamentals that can be cultivated and rooted in the culture of any organization - and this even includes startups!

For you to understand better, I made a list ...

5 reasons why every industry and company can - and should - adopt the tools of Lean Manufacturing

1. Define your process maps

Any area of a company has a work process - and the entire work process can be mapped, right?

This is one of the basic foundations of the philosophy of lean management and the use of Lean Manufacturing tools, it is through mapping that it identifies the most efficient means of operation, in addition to the most critical steps that require greater management and control.

And it is not only this, it is also possible to distinguish which of these phases and activities can be classified as waste, to actually enable the increased performance of the sector and consequently the organization.

2. Establish continuous and flexible flows

After using the techniques for process mapping, making execution flexible and continuous is another issue enabled by Lean Manufacturing tools.

The objective is to make the processes flexible to the point of being feasible to operate and produce different materials - and even information - with smoothness and consistency, without lacking and without exceeding. Beyond that, it's goal is also to make it continuous to the point of functioning according to the demand, that is, in an organized and standardized way, delivering the requested quantity at the correct time.

Coupled with standardized work, flexibility can result in greater capacity to produce what is being offered. And when this occurs, the inherent losses are reduced and consequently your company's profit potential is high.

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3. Maximize Quality and Productivity

If we already know that every area of a company has a working process, we may also come to the conclusion that: the more quality and productivity are increased, the larger is the output number of products with higher value added. That is, those products that customers are willing to pay.

Important: products are not only physical objects! It can be an information, a service, a research and so on ...

The focus on problem solving in a corrective manner should give its place to the concept of preventive action.

4. Create a customer-driven system

Producing material and information to stockpile were the goals of the lagged, mass-management system of the last century. The use of Lean Manufacturing tools point to another concept: your industry must produce outputs that are drawn by your customer, whether external or internal to your organization.

Support sectors such as IT, Cleaning, Quality and HR, for example, work on this concept linked to demand, that is, the outputs of their processes are created according to their responsibilities and needs in other areas.

5. Enable continuous improvement

And last but not least, I would like to comment on the concept of continuous improvement. To have today a better result than yesterday and tomorrow a better result than today is the basic foundation of the methodology Kaizen.

Instead of the unstable business market demanding changes and better results for your company, seek to find and apply previously the solutions that will leverage the performance of each area and therefore your company, is paramount.

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