Lean Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Value stream map is a visual mean to portray and improve the flow of a manufacturing and production process, as well as the information that controls the flow of materials through the process. In this article we will review how to create a value stream map. A value stream map [...]

Root Cause Analysis In simple words, an underlying cause of the problem is referred to as the root cause and the process of finding out the root cause of a problem or an adverse event is known as root cause analysis. Some problems are so rigid and tenacious that [...]