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7 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing | Seven Muda

7 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing | The market competition is one of the biggest challenges for any business. In modern business concepts, most of businesses are adopting various techniques and ideas to making lean the manufacturing process, to increase the profits by minimizing costs of processes. As we know, in the manufacturing processes – there […]

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Eight Disciplines (8Ds) in Quality

The Eight Disciplines for Problem Solving (8D’s) refers to the process designed to find the root cause of a problem in order to find the best solution. The main objective of this process is to create a short-term change and implement a long-term solution to prevent the radiating problems altogether. When it is confirmed that

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Correlation between Lean and Six Sigma

Lean operates on the principles of removing wastes of any process, thus accelerating the velocity, and reducing process costs. It basically focuses on speed. Six Sigma operates on the principles of reduction of variations and improvement of process yield. It basically focuses on the quality of any given service or product. Quality and speed and complementing factors, and thus Lean

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LEAN: Kanban Tools

Kanban tools are a relative concept to JIT (just-in-time) and Lean production. It literally means ‘billboard’ or ‘signboard’. Taiichi Ohno found out that kanban can be used as a means to achieve JIT. Kanban refers to an embellished metal or wooden sign, which are being used as trademarks and seals since the 17th century. These

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