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Different Types of Mind Maps Commonly Used

Mind maps are a convenient and easy way of brainstorming your thoughts and ideas fundamentally. It provides a visual structure for your thoughts and ideas and makes them easy to analyze and remember. Mind maps are diagrammatic representation of chores, confabulations, conceptions or features that are connected to single concept. A framework is built [...]

What Are Visual Management Systems

Visual Management Systems also known as VMS is basically a technique executed to share data and information with the help of visual signals instead of texts or verbal instructions. The system is designed to enable quick and better comprehension of the data by everyone to increase clarity and efficiency in the organization. The visual [...]

How to Create a Spaghetti Diagram Used Within Lean

By the name of spaghetti diagram, only spaghetti comes to mind which is straight, thin and hard if uncooked. Cooked spaghetti are flexible, soft and moldable. So, yes this diagram is made of the elastic and moldable pattern. Cooked spaghetti looks messy in a dish; it can also bend and playing crisscross the same [...]

The Six Big Losses in Lean Explained

In the light of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) program one of the key objectives is to decrease or get rid of what is known as the "Six Big Losses" that indicates the most common causes in productivity failures within manufacturing. Its framework comprises of the losses that fall in [...]

How Lean Milk Run Is Used to Cut Wastes

The concept of “Lean manufacturing or lean production”, or basically "lean", means an organized process for waste minimization ("Muda") without losing productivity in a manufacturing system. Lean tools and processes can be very effective in our way to guzzling waste from the operations of our supply chain. What Is Lean Milk Run The term [...]

How to Implement a Flexible Manufacturing System

Implementing a flexible manufacturing system signifies a commitment and significant investment by the organization. It is predominant that the system installation precedes by in-depth planning. Its operation should be characterized through excellent management of all the resources, such as people, parts, pallets, tools, and machines. What Is Flexible Manufacturing System? Before going ahead, we [...]

What Are the Benefits of Lean Thinking

Lean thinking readily decreases lead times and redeems significant revenues to enhance the organization’s progression and ambitions and certainly boosts organization’s productiveness and turnout. It enhances and promotes the company’s efficiency and is generally referred to as “improving progress and flow” and focuses mainly on minimizing waste. Lean thinking is to think from new [...]

What is Cellular Manufacturing in Lean

Cellular manufacturing is considered as an essential part of lean manufacturing. It deals with manufacturing products in small batches to aid continuous production process. Cellular manufacturing follows the principle of group technology, a term introduced by Frederick Taylor, that means that analogous products having similar properties are grouped together and so does the equivalent [...]

Use of Voice of Customer in Six Sigma

Voice of Customer in Six Sigma is the procedure used to apprehend feedback from the client to cater the customer with best service and quality. It describes both the told and untold requirements of the customers by various methods, such as, observation, interviews, surveys, reports and complaint logs etc. This process involves being innovative [...]

CTQ Tree Example and Explanation

CTQ is the abbreviated term for Critical to Quality. CTQ tree is a Six Sigma tool that is based on diagrams and helps to manufacture and provide superior quality products to customers. CTQ trees are used to interpret extensive and broader customer requirements into particular, precise, litigable and calculable performance demands. While formulating new [...]

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