MAS EFFICIENCY - Improving your processes
Lean
Lean is the term used to describe the production system developed by the Toyota company in the post World War II years.
Value Stream Mapping & Process Mapping
Value Stream Mapping involves creating a schematic diagram of your business to identify priority areas for improving its performance. Process Mapping allows you to break down a process into its component steps. These can then be simplified or eliminated, improving your performance.
Team Building
For manufacturers to operate in an efficient and profitable environment the whole workforce has to have the best interests of the company at heart. Sometimes this can be difficult if the ‘shop floor’ is removed from any element of decision making or consultation processes.
Layouts and Space Utilisation
If processes are to be ‘Leaned’ and new production principles put in place it may be that the whole process needs to be reassessed.
Reducing Waste in Production
One major area in which MAS practitioners can assist companies is in the reduction in waste in production.
Improving Quality and Delivery
Many manufacturers continue with their current work practices simply because they already exist and are part of their culture, this is not always a good thing and simple ‘tweaks’ could achieve a great deal in improving the quality of production, the end product and the delivery mechanisms.
Improving Resource Efficiency
Resource efficiency is collaboration and innovation to save waste, materials and energy; this is a strong working ethic of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS).
Applying Lean Techniques Across the Whole Enterprise
The specialist skills of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) can help manufacturers streamline their businesses in more ways than one.
