What is the actual worth of lean manufacturing methods and tools?
- Lean has many tools which have luckily gained wide acceptance
- The aim of these tools is mostly not evident
- Tools alone cannot make anything lean
- Tools are used by Toyota to encourage ‘lean thinking’ among co-workers
- Tools and indices, together with coaching, produce at Toyota the maximal synergy
Syncro APT offers practical advice for lean manufacturing. On introducing new process structures into production, we improve the quality of the process and product by using effective tools and methods and we further the lean philosophy among co-workers.
Our key areas of competence include improving the productivity of lines according to the ‘shojinga method’, improving the availability of machines according to TPM (PM analysis) and introducing lean logistic systems (lean logistics) and lean administration in indirect areas.
Introducing lean logistics serves to support supply-development programs for lessening material costs and for optimizing suppliers’ dependability and quality.
Pull guidance systems (like kanban) enable the product flow to be adjusted finely for the sake of achieving the briefest processing time while taking into account the often present SAP parameters.
