Lean Six Sigma in Manufacturing
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been successfully implemented in numerous major manufacturing industries such as general manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, food, consumer electronics, medical devices, pharmaceutical, hard drive manufacturing; as well as supporting industries such as precision parts, metal stamping, and injection molding.
The following are some examples of LSS applicability:
– improve product quality
– improve end-to-end lead time ( overall order to delivery lead time )
– reduce waste ( generally refers to as the 8 form of wastes)
– reducing manufacturing defects ( including defect in final product as well as work in progress, WIP)
– reducing variation in all the critical parameters that impact the finished product
– improving yield and efficiency the manufacturing process
– optimizing inventory levels for all major parts
– improving Safety & Reliability of products
Upstream processes:
– enhancing Supplier Quality
– reducing supplier lead time i.e time taken by each supplier to deliver goods
– improving the overall incoming Material Quality or parts Quality
Downstream processes:
– improve logistic, warehouse & delivery lead time & quality.
– reduce errors & product defects
– reduce finished good inventory
If design process is involved:
– reducing time to manufacture
– using Design FMEA to understand and prevent any possible design failures
– reducing design defects
LSS has been implemented in many different industries with great success. Some of the industries are as follows:
- Lean Six Sigma in Service Industry
- Lean Six Sigma in Shared Service Centres (SSC)
- Lean Six Sigma in Continuous Process Industry
- Lean Six Sigma for Research & Development (R&D)
- Lean Six Sigma in Government / Public Sector
There are many useful Lean Six Sigma tools within the LSS toolbox. However, for LSS implementation to be successful, do not focus only on the tools but instead strike a balance between two important components of LSS – technical tools as well as soft skills.
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