LEAN Management
LEAN management is a set of techniques which help you achieve More Value with Less Work. We use LEAN to identify and eliminate waste in your processes. LEAN helps you to:
- determine how and where value is created for the customer
- focus on enhancing these value -adding activities
- eliminate or minimise the wasteful non-value-adding activities.
Outcomes: Waste is eliminated; customer service and quality improve; lead times and costs reduce.
For more information on LEAN, go to our FAQ page.
The following LEAN techniques are all proven to work in all types of business:
Business Process Re-engineering (BRP)
SMED
Clean Slate
Value Stream Mapping
5S
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
BPR has tremendous potential to transform your business; using BPR we can deliver significant benefits in a very short period of time.
BRP is a way of looking at what you do and how you do it in order to find radically better ways of working, throughout your business, now and for the future. We use it to help you to identify, analyse and redesign your core business processes.
Outcomes: Dramatic improvements in key indicators such as cost, quality and productivity.
For more information on BPR, go to our FAQ page.
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SMED
SMED stands for Single Minute Exchange of Die. The aim is to achieve rapid, repeatable and efficient changeovers. This enables smaller batch sizes, saving the time and costs of over production and storage. SMED can also be used in an office environment, allowing more tasks to be completed.
Our SMED workshop provides a system for looking at the changeover process to reduce the time, materials, people and mistakes involved.
Outcomes: Reduced operating costs and processing effort, and quicker response to customer orders.
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Clean Slate approach
We help you to look at your processes from a ‘clean slate’ perspective and fundamentally re-think how you work in order to do it better.
Outcomes: Dramatically cut your operational costs and improve customer service.
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Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
We use VSM to identify the value-adding and non-value-adding activities in your business processes. This improves the flow of information and materials throughout your entire system. We support you to:
- Design, plan and implement improved systems, with less non-value adding activities
- Gain an overall picture of your company in order to better plan future developments.
Outcome: Reduction in non-value-adding activities and costs.
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5S
5S is a visual way of organising and managing any working environment, from reception to dispatch. In other words, a place for everything and everything in its place, clean and ready to use. The impact on productivity is significant.
Outcomes: Work flow is improved; efficiency and safety are increased; waste is reduced.
Contact us now to discuss how we can help you improve your business processes.
You can contact us using the form to the right. Or email info@mgarnerconsulting.co.uk, or ring freephone 0800 242 5287.