Manufacturing has a relatively small influence on the overall cost and quality of the product or service supplied.
Remember the Value Stream?
When Lean principles are applied across all the functions in the value stream, true competitive advantage can be gained.
This is sometimes known as Lean Enterprise Lean Product Development demands an integrated multi-disciplined approach.
E.g., Toyota, Ford, Nokia and others,
We understand that we are not Toyota !!!! However, it is important to understand some of the main differences between the Toyota culture and conventional business cultures when they develop new products as it will help you see where we can make changes to grow stronger as a company. Also, it will enable you to understand where development systems have originated from.
Lean Six Sigma challenges for Service and Product Development are
Short life cycles for both products and technologies.
[Comment: This requires dynamic changes in product designs be managed at the sub-assembly level and coordinated across product lines to gain the most synergy for our development efforts.]
Customers have rising expectations for quality of total service [Comment: Customers don’t care if the problem is a handset or service provider.]
Increasing number of product development projects.
[Comment: Nokia has chosen to compete in all technology areas. Since technology has not yet consolidated around one or two standards, we face the need to innovate and refresh all product lines on a regular basis. Most of our competitors are not attempting this same approach.]
Products must be capable of manufacture in the millions.
[Comment: Mistakes cannot be made in production, right the first time is essential or we will not effectively compete in this business.]
Reliance on component parts quality from suppliers.
[Comment: We do not control our own destiny for quality but must seek exceptional partners who can contribute to our overall effort on behalf of our customers.]
Software is complex and interoperability is essential & interoperability is essential.
[Comment: Again, “right the first time” is the rule for software as well as hardware. We also rely heavily on standards and industry partnerships to assure that we maintain seamless integration between hardware manufacturers and service providers.]
‘Poka Yoke’ is a technique for eliminating errors, used by Black Belts for solution generation and preparing implementation;
such that it is …Impossible to make mistakes, …Inexpensive, …Very effective, …Based on simplicity and ingenuity.
“poka” means an inadvertent mistake, “yoke” means to prevent, it originates by mr. Shigeo Shingo (1909-1990) in Japan.
Error proofing is a very simple technique.
You should keep it in mind at all times, but particularly when you are designing the solution or the improvement
Ideally you should prevent all possibility of the problem occurring, elmination;
If you can’t do this, you should then try to
…in that order!
There is a long list of techniques that characterise the flow, pull and perfection parts of the Lean idea .
Notice how must time is always given to ‘Quick Changeover’; this is important since whilst things are stopped, the value stream is not flowing
Notice also that there isn’t any “Do this!”, rather what we learn are techniques to improve the flow of value streams .
If you can’t flow then pull is the next step .
And you can not do it all at once, so every improvement is a step on the way to perfection, but you never get there .
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