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LESSONS FROM LEAN MANAGEMENT FOR ANY INDUSTRY
Jim O'Brien
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Vice President of Sales at The Raymond Corporation, overseeing sales for
Raymond's material handling products and intralogistics solutions.
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In any industry, minor improvements in efficiency, innovation and production can
have an enormous influence on profits. Operations are looking for an edge in
every sector of their business whether that is through shorter lead times in the
supply chain, enhanced quality of products or an increase in waste reduction
efforts. Lean management can help organizations achieve all that and more. The
true purpose of lean management transforms an organization’s culture and
encourages continuous improvement — as it is a long-term process, not just a
quick fix or a fad. The goal is to help your employees become self-sufficient
problem-solvers.
Based on the philosophies of reduced waste in pursuit of the most efficient
methods, lean management is a continual process used to help you achieve
optimization, eliminate inefficiencies and identify and solve challenges. The
discipline can be used by anyone and in any setting — from top office executives
to the manufacturing floor.
How It Works
Through a proven process of visualization, organization and
standardization, lean management can help operations identify inefficiencies and
implement changes designed to improve workflows and save time and money. Lean
management procedures and techniques allow you to regulate production lines,
monitor key performance indicators and make continuous progress to provide the
best possible results for your specific application.
Standardization
Standardization helps support improvement over time. Once there is a standard in
place, targets can be established. With targets established, variances can be
more easily discovered and improved upon through Kaizen activities, helping an
organization move closer to those target conditions.
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Part of this process involves finding any waste. One way to do this is to
identify the value and non-value found in various processes and their steps.
Once found, you can adjust to support value found in different steps while
removing any non-value in other steps.
Building A Culture Of Continuous Improvement
Culture is an important aspect of continuous improvement. To adopt a culture
that supports this goal, top-level executives need to buy into the ideas and
philosophies in order to encourage employees to embrace the same ideas. It
should reach all departments. By implementing this shared objective throughout
the organization, these lean management principles will transform an
organization’s culture to keep identifying and solving wastes and
inefficiencies. This is intended to help achieve cost savings throughout the
company. Introducing lean management principles enhances your environment by
enabling workers to make improvements and take responsibility for tasks they
achieve every day.
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Engaging Employees
One critical part of lean management in play at Raymond is "kaizen." Also known
as "change for the better," it is a way in which everyone within a company can
put their efforts toward achieving ongoing improvements. It is meant to empower
each employee to not only recognize needs for efficiency but speak up about ways
to improve. A potential solution can then be analyzed, and if it's determined
that it will improve the issue at hand, it can be implemented. This loop of
communication helps to engage employees — which can help boost morale and
retention.
Collaboration is also important — and a part of the lean management cultural
philosophy. Routine meetings in departments act as platforms to look over
previous issues and provide acknowledgment for employees who go above and
beyond. In the end, it helps support the cultural philosophy across an
organization.
Lean management can be used to improve the efficiency of any kind of company —
not just manufacturing organizations. When implemented correctly, a lean culture
teaches everyone in an organization to become problem solvers who contribute to
the continuous improvement of the company.
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