Objectives
Financial savings, reduced production costs, elimination of non-value-adding activities, increased employee involvement.
Challenges
- Reduce production costs and increase efficiency by increasing added value in the process through the elimination of waste.
- Increasing the motivation of employees in production areas and involving them in the change process.
- Increasing the flexibility and responsiveness of the production area to order changes.
- Recovery of liquidity - reduction of inventory and work in progress.
Benefits and visible results
- Elimination of the share of non-value-generating activities by approximately 30%
- Financial savings through elimination of wastage
- Faster responses to changing orders - improving on-time delivery by approximately 20%
- Improved efficiency and productivity - through effective machine management and use of Lean tools
- The ability for employees to self-assess their position, measure and propose improvement solutions.
Sub-goals to be achieved by task forces
- Reduce scrap
- Reduce cycle time
- Reducing the number of breakdowns
- Improve material utilisation
- Reduce production rework
- Increasing the number of deliveries on time (to the customer)
- Improving stock control
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