Operational Management

Why Lean Manufacturing Fails

Here are some facts that i try to explains as i feel about the – why lean manufacturing fails in enterprises, and what are the common reasons! Be suspicious of consultants who want to teach lean classes. Create Ohno or Ford… They risked their skin and their future. They thought and acted, at the expense […]

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Optimizing Value Stream Diagram: Avoiding Common Mistakes

The accurate value stream diagram may help you to avoid complexities, highlight the importance of product family analysis, identify utilization of resources, and separate inventory causes from actual processes.   Confusion about Product families   When reviewing the value stream diagram submit by the supervisor. It is sometimes found that there are many small value

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What is a control plan? – Six Sigma in Manufacturing

A control plan is a document that fully describes the procedures required at each stage of the production process, such as quality checks or monitoring process parameters, measurement procedures, and inspections. This document is helpful in ensuring that the process outputs conform to pre-defined requirements. This method provides support for documenting the functional elements of quality control,

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What is Visual Management? – The Lean System Tools

Visual Management is a mechanism or management method, which can clarify at a glance, what problems are occurring on the site, it enables problem solving as well as appropriate countermeasures. This is directly aimed at creating production efficiency and reducing costs, simplifying the management business of managers and supervisors, and improving their efficiency and improving

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Design of Experiments (DOE)

Whenever we have to make an experimental design, two main issues are important to any business, one is to reduce the number of samples and to manage the costs systematically. Also, all the necessary information should be available in proper proportion. It requires an optimal design that ensures adequate sampling by minimizing the number of

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Kano Model – Analysis Tool

What is Kano Model? || Kano Model Process Flow table || Kano Model Analysis [ Basic (Most be required)] / [Performance (More is Better)] / [Delighters] || 5 Steps of Kano Model Process – How to Use Kano Model? ||     What is Kano Model?   Kano Model is systematic approach to prioritize customer requirements based on understanding customer needs and value

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SIPOC Diagram

What is SIPOC? || When to use SIPOC || How to use SIPOC || SIPOC Process Analysis || SIPOC Diagram Review || SIPOC Diagram Template     What is SIPOC?   SIPOC is process improvement tool used by process mapping for identify information of key elements in a table form.   The SIPOC combined word comes from first letter of contents chain, which an abbreviation

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What is Management Information System (MIS)?

MIS is part of an information system, which is a computerized database system that records, stores, and processes information to coordinate, control, analyze, and visualize information in order to implement the right decisions in an organization. In general, this method is used to reinforce the study of people, processes, and technology in the organizational context.

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What is Work Instruction?

In manufacturing, work instructions are documents that describe product manufacturing processes, the correct way to perform certain tasks or a specific activity. In particular, work instructions are applied to any task or specific process in a product manufacturing facility to ensure the quality and safe completion of the product. Any work instruction document, how to

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