Upgrade Your Productivity By 15% Or More
Meaning – A Safer More Secure Future
flow Beyond Lean
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Here’s Some Good News….
Factory Of The Year Award
Background: This is about a UK plastic moulded component manufacturer mostly in automotive. They did flow Beyond Lean to support a web-based B2B sales initiative. They’d committed to same-day shipment of all orders placed before 1pm. With several thousand SKUs they were being heavily criticised by their US management. In response to their automotive customers’ just-in-time policy, they’d built up huge amounts of “just-in-case” redundant inventory.
Action: As part of a global transformation programme, all manufacturing processes were linked and precisely synchronised in a flow. Production was driven to replenishment demand from finished goods inventory (FGI) Kanban. Dual-card Kanban pulled demand upstream from assembly to the moulding machines in a flow. Batch quantities were reduced to calculated “days of demand” quantities that produced exactly was needed to replenish FGI and much less of what was not needed.
Benefits: The benefits of flow included 23% greater Productivity and reduced waste. Same-day customer service improved by 63%, Total first-year Cash Flow benefits exceeded £600,000. The British MD and his staff were delighted with their “Management Today” Factory of the Year Award. The US management left them alone to run their own business.
flow Beyond Lean
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To know more about flow and its origins in Demand Flow Technology (DFT) click on this link to Wikipedia:
Greater Productivity, doing more with fewer people
– more revenue, lower costs, bigger profits. Makes sense?
But, how to achieve it?
Is it just about getting people to work harder, doing more with less – or getting Working Capital working harder?
Sounds like Lean might be the answer – eliminating waste
Lean has been around for decades, yet there are still those who say, “Lean didn’t always quite work for us.”
So, “Is there life beyond Lean as we know it?”
Yes, it’s called flow – joining up the Lean dots, linking and synchronising the output from “islands of Lean excellence”
Connectivity – right through to the bottom line.
Here’s how to flow beyond Lean for
greater Productivity
more Profitable Growth
better Cash Flow
How to Upgrade Productivity by 15% to 20%
Which Means More Profit – A Safer More Secure Future
flow Beyond Lean
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A couple of quick questions.
How much time does it take to actually make a fairly typical product in the factory? Minutes or hours?
How long does it take to actually get an order for that product through the factory? Days or weeks?
Why the disconnect? Why should it take say 3 weeks in a Working Capital Pipeline to make a product with 5 hours of work content?
Mind the gap. This pipeline is filled with Cash embedded in Working Capital that isn’t working! Does it really have to be that way?
What would it mean for your business if product was delivered in hours or days
instead of weeks or months?
How much more Productivity would that deliver?
How important is it to you to achieve that?
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