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ESCAPE THE JARGON WITH THIS FREE GLOSSARY
There are lots of lean jargon terms to navigate when you start on a lean journey. It can be challenging to understand how they all fit together. Grab this free glossary and escape the jargon.
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WHY LEAN MANUFACTURING
Lean Manufacturing (also known as Lean Management) is a system of management developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation. It's been adapted successfully across the world to almost every sector of manufacturing as well as a huge range of non-manufacturing sectors.
The term was coined to describe Toyota's relentless focus on eliminating waste and lead time.
It is a practical system developed to address cash flow problems.
While there is a lot of jargon, the underlying principles of Lean Manufacturing are simple, common sense and can be applied in every manufacturing business, no matter how small.
YOU'LL LEARN ALL ABOUT
- 5S work area standardisation
- Hoshin Kanri (Policy Development)
- Heijunka (Level Scheduling) to adapt you utilise capacity in the best way
- Jidoka (Automation) for quality control
- Kaizan (Change for the Better)
- Just in time production
- Muda (Waste) and what it means
- Poke Yoke (Error Proofing) to prevent defects
- Value Stream Mapping to improve the flow of information
- And much more......
IN THIS GUIDE WE'LL EXPLORE
This guide will address the following:
- Provide a quick overview of lean manufacturing
- Help you get an understanding of how Lean Manufacturing came about
- Provide a glossary of the most widely used terms
- Bust the jargon and get to the heart of what the terms mean.
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