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Lean Manufacturing means eliminating waste - all the operations that don’t add any value to the product, like reading the work instructions, looking for material, transporting material, etc. It was modeled after the concepts introduced by Toyota after WW-II. This system was developed to provide best quality, lowest cost, and shortest lead-time through the elimination of waste. Its development is credited to Taiichi Ohno, Toyota’s chief of production at that time. The Toyota system is more effective and efficient than traditional mass production system.
In the Toyota system, the production orders are generated by the customers. This means that at the moment when one of the dealers sells a new car, truck or a part, it generates an order to one of the plants to produce another one, this is known as a pull system where downstream activities signal needs to upstream activities.
Here at EFCO, we started Lean Manufacturing in the Sub-frame/Panning line and the former Sliding Glass Doors, now Sales Order Line. Our goal is to produce a complete sales order in the line and our pull system starts from shipping, generating a series of signals and actions to the line and other departments to do a specific job. |
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