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What Is Lean Manufacturing?

The core idea of lean manufacturing, (i.e., lean production) is actually quite simple; relentlessly work on eliminating waste from the manufacturing process.

What Is Waste?

Waste is defined as any activity that does not add value from the customer’s perspective. According to research conducted by the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC), fully 60% of production activities in a typical manufacturing operation are waste – they add no value at all for the customer.

The good news is that just about every company has a tremendous opportunity to improve by eliminating waste, using lean manufacturing techniques and other manufacturing best practices.

What Are Lean Manufacturing Techniques?

The techniques of lean manufacturing enable you to deliver higher quality products at significantly lower costs. Now that is something to get excited about!

It can be difficult to find reliable and well-written information about improvement techniques for manufacturing. So, our goal is to provide you with the absolute best source of easy-to-understand information for helping you improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of your manufacturing operations across topics like “What is 5S?”, TPM, OEE, and more!.

With that in mind, we have designed each lean production topic on this site to be self-contained and to stand on its own. If you want to learn about a topic, simply forge ahead and read about it. We have worked to make it particularly easy to explore the topics that are of most interest to your situation.

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EASYLean Production Is Easy

Our goal is to create learning materials that are easy to understand and easy to implement. We believe that even complex topics can be made easier and more accessible.

PRACTICALLean Production Is Practical

We are realistic about what is within the reach of most teams to accomplish – and the resource limitations that we all face. We want to help you achieve quick progress.

FLEXIBLELean Production Is Flexible

We are not dogmatic about lean. We respect tradition and we honor heritage – but not at the expense of progress. We believe that lean should be living and adaptable.

PEOPLE-FOCUSEDLean Production Is People-Focused

We emphasize the critical role of people (like you) in creating sustainable long-term change. It’s one of the under-appreciated and least-practiced aspects of lean.

Lean Production Topics

TOP 25 LEAN TOOLSTop 25 LEAN manufacturing tools. Get started with LEAN manufacturing concepts

Explore the world of lean through this collection of 25 lean tools.

OEEOEE waterfall chart with the OEE Loss factors

Leverage OEE to accurately measure manufacturing productivity.

THEORY OF CONSTRAINTSThe five focusing steps of the Theory of Constraints are used to identify and decrease manufacturing bottlenecks

Focus improvement efforts on the constraint to improve throughput.

TPMTotal Productive Maintenance (TPM) consists of 5S and eight supporting activities

Engage operators with a proactive approach to maintaining equipment.

5SThe 5S process is a cycle made up of the steps Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain.

Create an organized and safe workspace as a foundation for other improvements.

SMEDStreamline changeover processes with the three major phases of SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die)

Reduce changeover times to under 10 minutes with the SMED methodology.

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