lean and six sigma
Contents
Lean and Six Sigma
Current State Map
Future State Map
Implementation of Lean and Six Sigma
A3 report
References
Lean and Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma is a modern day concept linkingtwo industrial best practices Lean and Six Sigma.
By combining the two, Lean Six Sigma organizations are operating more efficiently. Looking at the recent developments Lean Six Sigma is emerging as the most prevalent business performance practice in the history of corporate improvement.But in the past and even at some industries now days, these both practices are used separately. So here also these practices are explained separately.
Lean
"Lean" is an Industrial practice in which the fundamental idea is to increase customer value while reducing the component of waste. Basically, giving more value to the customer with less resource is lean. (Mark Gershon, 2011)1.
From customer’s perspective, for a product or service, "value" is anything that he/she would be willing to pay for. An organization which is using lean practices recognizes the value from customer’s perspective and concentrates its important practices to endlessly increase it. The final objective is to offer perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process with zero waste.
What is Waste?
Waste is a part of production process which doesn 't add any value to the end product. (Peter Hines and Nick Rich, 1997) 4. There are eight categories of waste that current industry or individual are focusing on. And these are explained in the following fig:
Types of Wastes
Basic Lean Process:
Lean Process consists of five steps. These are very easy to remember but when it comes to the real time application of this step, industry faces a lot of problems. This process is explained in the following fig
1. Identify value from customer’s view.
2. Identify all the steps which are not adding any value.
3. Make a proper sequence of the value-creating steps
4. Allow
Lean and Six Sigma
Current State Map
Future State Map
Implementation of Lean and Six Sigma
A3 report
References
Lean and Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma is a modern day concept linkingtwo industrial best practices Lean and Six Sigma.
By combining the two, Lean Six Sigma organizations are operating more efficiently. Looking at the recent developments Lean Six Sigma is emerging as the most prevalent business performance practice in the history of corporate improvement.But in the past and even at some industries now days, these both practices are used separately. So here also these practices are explained separately.
Lean
"Lean" is an Industrial practice in which the fundamental idea is to increase customer value while reducing the component of waste. Basically, giving more value to the customer with less resource is lean. (Mark Gershon, 2011)1.
From customer’s perspective, for a product or service, "value" is anything that he/she would be willing to pay for. An organization which is using lean practices recognizes the value from customer’s perspective and concentrates its important practices to endlessly increase it. The final objective is to offer perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process with zero waste.
What is Waste?
Waste is a part of production process which doesn 't add any value to the end product. (Peter Hines and Nick Rich, 1997) 4. There are eight categories of waste that current industry or individual are focusing on. And these are explained in the following fig:
Types of Wastes
Basic Lean Process:
Lean Process consists of five steps. These are very easy to remember but when it comes to the real time application of this step, industry faces a lot of problems. This process is explained in the following fig
1. Identify value from customer’s view.
2. Identify all the steps which are not adding any value.
3. Make a proper sequence of the value-creating steps
4. Allow
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