Case studies seconds to understand the essence of lean production
Lean production, the creative process to adapt to the market more variety, small batch and waste problems associated with switching demand, has been called the best production management system and a method for manufacturing industry today.
Lean production improvement is reflected in the usual work bit by bit, the lower share three cases, expect to give everybody generate inspiration:
1. How to strengthen the management of:
Visualizing improvements
A company with a large open office, there are two or three hundred people in the office together. Because management is not timely, often generating company office lights, central air conditioning not closed situation. Recently, corporate executives also know these things, direct the executive department must strengthen management, to solve this problem as soon as possible.
So like a lot of the administrative department, such as: the promulgation of rules and regulations, people take the lights off, security personnel inspection, examination of leading cadres on duty to carry out the punishment, publicity and so on.
Also has a role in the beginning, but over time, because the regulation is not timely, the problem is generated again, rules and regulations to implement is not very good.
I think, though key rules and regulations, but not superstitious rules and regulations. This is attributable to the subconscious to make mistakes, make mistakes subconscious can not be used to binding rules and regulations. Management is critical, but independent of management staff of more critical.
By the practice of a company to come up with a good way: they designed a cartoon on the company's door, as long as a lock, there will be a cartoon come out to ask this user-friendly, "yet you turn off the lights?" management and reminders, turn off the lights and air conditioning to forget the phenomenon will be no.
2. Look Ricoh, Toyota How do management:
Japanese companies leaving only the classic story
There are a Japanese company, their manager is a 65-year-old or older, he is retired and then rehired by the company. She says the key is to keep people really love the staff, dedicated to taking into account the needs of workers, to meet them.
He had a habit is to accompany employees to work two hours a week, to know their hard work. He has been the front-line employees to speak, so that every person has a feel vulnerable as they backed.
3. southwest England aeronautics Toyota:
Standardization and simplification
Japan commodity product used to be on behalf of the poor, said the Americans had despised Japanese companies. But the first decade of the 20th century, had a Sept. 11 incident, the international financial crisis, so the Americans have learned to put down the figure to learn from the Japanese.
Southwest British Airways learning Toyota, the implementation of lean production. All their models there is only one, that is, 737.
Machinery and equipment as simple practical, simple maintenance, spare parts of machinery and equipment maintenance is simple pilots, flight attendants they are borne aircraft cleaning aircraft health, so reducing costs, airport transfer station was also significantly reduced.
In addition there is a benefit, pilots here, pilots, flight attendants and so stable, why? Because they are familiar with only 737 models, to work hard to find another airline.