Lean Methods and Tools

The systematic and persistent application of individual methods and tools results in a continuous lean management of all value added processes.

Auditing - The gauge of change
Autonomation (Jidoka) - Intelligent automation
Auto-unloading (Hanedashi)
Avoiding wastage using video analysis - Analysis of working processes
Cardboard Engineering - Creating and simulating work systems
Chaku-Chaku Line
Employee CIP - Deal with 'minor' problems and ideas 
Employee Qualification 
5S - The basis for continuous improvement
Heijunka - see production levelling
Improvement organisation
Jidoka - see Autonomation
Kanban - Consumption-driven material supply
Low Cost Intelligent Automation (LCIA)
Milkrun - Increased supply rate at constact freight charges
Objectives - Orientation and control
One-piece-flow - Reducing processing times
PDCA - Plan - Do - Check - Act
Poka Yoke - Avoiding unintended errors
Production levelling (Heijunka) - Constant production rhythm
Project management 
QCD Workshop - Improvement of quality, cost and delivery service 
Quick Changeover (SMED) - Less inventory, more flexibility        
Regular communication - Efficient and effective flow of information
Regularity and Cleanness - Basis of wastage minimised processes
Shopfloor Management 
Standardisation - Clarity and understanding of working processes
Supermarket
Total Productive Management (TPM) - Self-dependent maintenance
Visual Management - Transparent targets, measures and status