KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing

KAIZEN Lean Principles

The principles of KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing can be applied to eliminate waste and improve your product's flow. KAIZEN Lean can be applied in both the office as well as the production floor. The goal of KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing is to have production and demand linked directly so that you produce the product at the time the customer wants it.

KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing is already being applied by companies throughout North America. Those companies that have started on the Lean journey have already reduced their lead-time and are reaping the benefits on their bottom line.

KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing Training

Our KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing Training programs are based on your organization and its needs. Our training is focused on you and is adaptable to your issues.

The KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing Training results are immediate and the lean training sticks because you immediately practice what you have learned.

KAIZEN Lean is a continuing process that becomes part of your annual planning, goal setting and ongoing operation and becomes part of the fabric of your organization.

KAIZEN Lean Benefits

As you achieve your first of many future states you should start to become more flexible in meeting changing customer demands. You will have less downtime to changeover equipment and the quality of your products will improve. You will start to do more with less labor and require less floor space to produce your product. By freeing up resources you will be able to bring more products into your facility or increase you production level to meet an increase in customer demand or spend time developing new products. And of course, your cash flow improves.

You will do this by reducing your batch sizes, relying less on forecasts and more on the true customer demand. Identifying and removing the waste in your processes in a systematic manner by completing your implementation plan. The main focus is on flow - information and material flows. To accomplish flow, you must remove all types of 'waste' throughout the system using a proper future state implementation plan for the enterprise (includes both office and production/service).

KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing Software Leverages Your Existing Manufacturing Software for Breakthrough Performance

While virtually all manufacturers have invested heavily in ERP, MES and APS solutions, few feel like they have achieved the expected performance gains - especially those who operate in complex manufacturing environments with high product mix, shared assets, and volatile supply and demand. ERP, MES and APS solutions provide a necessary transactional and data foundation for today's manufacturing businesses, but on their own, they are unable to deliver dramatic, sustainable performance improvements throughout the supply chain. MachSix leverages your existing manufacturing solutions to help you discover and implement the highest value performance improvement opportunities in and across your factories.

KAIZEN Lean Planning and Scheduling Software and Methodology

MachSix Planning and Scheduling solution, combines a proven demand-driven manufacturing methodology with advanced optimization, simulation and analytics. It bridges the gap between your ERP, MES and APS applications and your plant floor to enable dramatic, sustainable performance improvements including reduced inventory and cycle times, improved throughput and customer service. You will be able to identify and understand the impact of supply and demand variability on your manufacturing operations allowing you to evaluate and implement scenarios for both short-term and continuous improvement.

Industries

MachSix empowers manufacturers in highly variable, asset intensive environments such as pharmaceuticals, consumer or industrial goods, chemicals and metals achieve operational excellence in an often overlooked, yet core, element of their supply chain-the factory. The MachSix planning and scheduling is built on well-known principles from KAIZEN Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma, extended with new approaches and technology that make complex environments with shared equipment and thousands of finished products more efficient and productive. We've helped the following companies become more responsive, agile and better connected to their supply chains.

Benefits

MachSix software helps customers effectively balance cycle times, throughput and inventory to achieve better customer service levels, while giving employees a continuous view into plant floor dynamics. It complements existing ERP, SCM, or MES systems by providing more accurate data and a real-time view into plant floor health.

• Define product flows to achieve maximum throughput
• Establish key metrics to Measure performance
• Analyze plant floor dynamics to monitor progress
• Control today's levels while constantly innovating

Reducing inventory may be a key performance goal, but you don't want customer service levels to suffer. When you add capacity planning, things get complex. We take the complexity out of trade offs, so you can achieve balance while you continually raise performance levels without adding capacity. Using MachSix, customers can:

• Continually monitor current production and metrics to immediately address problems
• Set targets for key metrics based on desired customer service levels
• Feed real-time data back to other information systems
• Identify and control variability in products, processes and demand