- It’s not an “add water and stir” initiative. You can’t just decide one day to become lean and think it will happen overnight. You need to determine what constraints are impeding your ability to increase speed, improve quality, and eliminate non-value-added activities. And, finally they need to be included in the company’s Strategic Plan as a “Critical Success Factor” including relevant strategic objectives.
- Everyone must participate and understand. Unless all employees participating in the lean initiative are convinced that their commitment and efforts are important to its success, improvements will not meet expectations.
- Prepare well. Even with the best plan, successful implementation will be evasive if there is not a genuine commitment to employee training, multi-functional, self-directed work team development and empowerment.
- Establish goals and expectations, track daily/weekly progress and carry out corrective actions if and when required. Determining motivational performance metrics and establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to track performance is paramount to achieving positive, sustainable lean initiative results.
- Be a leader and a champion. Successful, lean manufacturing implementation requires Lean Manufacturing Champions.
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