From the course: Lean Six Sigma Foundations
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Lean metrics
- Many of the principles of lean production go back to Henry Ford in the 1920s, who believed that you should eliminate anything that does not provide value. That's the basic premise of lean. James Womack and Daniel Jones became famous with their 1990 book on Toyota's lean manufacturing approach. They outlined five key principles of this approach to value. Determine value for the specific product. This is where you determine your performance metrics. Identify the value stream for that product. Applying process mapping tools, you can determine the steps that add value to your product and the steps that do not. Make value flow without interruptions. Applying the principles of lean and their problem solving tools, you eliminate those non-value-added steps. Let the customer pull value from the manufacturer. This is the basis of just-in-time manufacturing that tells you to only produce what is needed to satisfy customer demand. Pursue perfection, and this is the foundation for continuous…
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