"Lean Production With Work Process Management" White Paper

Enabling Standard Work to Increase Cost Savings & Maintain Lean Momentum

Many times in the lean journey, teams move through a methodology on projects, deliver improvements and move on to the next project. Six Sigma gives us the Control phase to maintain changes for improvements, but even with that, it can be difficult to keep delivering benefits because the Control phase itself can break down. Once momentum gets lost on the project, people can revert back to their former processes that include waste.

By maintaining automated control over a process with Work Process Management and enabling Electronic Standard Work, companies can have a much better chance of reducing waste for the longer term. Standard Work processes become embedded into the Work Process Management system, which can take lean initiatives to the next level. With true standard work and an electronic environment for Kaizen, momentum always remains high, waste is eliminated, work processes are monitored—and the gains grow year after year.

Work Process Management and the resulting Electronic Standard Work supports lean and lean Six Sigma efforts in the following ways:

• Graphically define and document work processes—making it much easier to start the lean journey
• Find and eliminate the non—value add activities more quickly and easily
• Execute work processes through a controlled, electronic system—ensuring that processes are followed
• Improve processes in real time—not “after the fact”
• Automatically capture, store and analyze production data—closing the loop for continuous improvement
• Digitize the control plan and its execution
• Keep process improvements consistent, so projects keep adding value

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