Lean Manufacturing PosterConcepts of Lean Manufacturing can at times get intriguing for employees to understand. To counter such an eventuality, proponents of Lean Manufacturing techniques have come up with the concept of having a Lean Manufacturing poster each for the different concepts of Lean Manufacturing. Post this thought process, we can now see that almost each and every concept advocated by Lean Manufacturing is communicated through a Lean Manufacturing poster. A brief search of the internet would allow you to look at different posters. Each of these intend to generate and distribute information relating to different concepts of Lean Manufacturing. The 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing talks more on the lines of reducing waste in the Defects, Overproduction, Waiting time, Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Extra Processing, Non-utilized resources aspects of production. The 5S Poster communicates the 5S of continuous process improvement, also called as Kaizen. This poster would communicate the 'identify-sort out' waste approach of Lean Manufacturing mechanism. A Value Stream Mapping poster communicates on methods and techniques to implement Lean Manufacturing tools to different processes. The 7 Waste of Operations poster would communicate the need of eliminating wastes from the point of view of Defects, Inventory, Processing, Waiting, Motion, Transportation and Overproduction. Changeover is an important consideration for any Lean Manufacturing technique to be successful as large and complex changeover processes can be reduced by Setup Reduction costs and Cellular reduction. The 8 Rules of changeover poster will communicate basic guidelines that the product development team should follow to ensure that the Changeover factor is not a hindrance to the product development process. These posters do not intend to summarize the learning of a Lean Management approach. It has been observed by many advocates of Lean Manufacturing technique that Lean Manufacturing unlike other quality management techniques explains well if presented graphically. And that is where these concepts come in handy when explained by a visual aid. Some companies who employ Lean Manufacturing as a technique to their production processes, take this posters as a reminder to each and every employee about the aspects of Lean Manufacturing. A Lean Manufacturing Poster serves as visual aid for the employees of the development cycle on their Dos and Don'ts in their production process. These posters are treated as reinforcement measures of Lean Manufacturing techniques. Please be careful that you should ideally put up Posters in your workplace. It is considered to be a best practice to have the employees trained in Lean Manufacturing concepts first because once that happens, employees would be able to correlate to the information in the poster. It is a good reinforcement practice to have posters up the walls of your workplace. After all, you would not mind spending some money to ensure that your costs are minimized and customer satisfaction levels are on the upward drive. |