(Note: The following is part of a series written and delivered as a presentation to SMC Business Council's Manufacturing Group on 05.13.2010. I am sharing it with our blog readers to stimulate a discussion. Feel free to weigh in and give me your comments. I'll be posting it over the next few weeks to allow time for the discussion to evolve. A special thanks to Tom Henschke, newly appointed President at SMC for the opportunity to share the message.)
The Premise: Your Lean System Might Stink...
In order to produce world-class results, lean or operational excellence must be your primary strategy, encompassing the entire enterprise. Failure to replace your current “operating system” completely with a true “lean”, what I will call Operational Excellence, system, will only frustrate your organization.
The long range gains for sustained lean implementation include revenue growth, increases in productivity, increases in cash flow and a happier, engaged workforce.
The problem with not replacing the operating system wholesale is that, instead, we’ve added pieces and parts of a lean system - tools - to our existing, broken processes and systems. The result ranges from limited, localized successes to all-out failures. Frustrations abound: executives who are confused with the results and front line leaders and workers who have to make production AND do lean things, confused about which has priority.
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