For most private enterprises, the score of lean maturity is 2-3 (full score 10), and the score of good state-owned enterprises and foreign enterprises is 5-6. The gap is clear at a glance. Materials, semi-finished products and tools that can be seen everywhere are all put together, which is difficult to distinguish, difficult to find and take, and there is no visual information transmission. Everyone is an island, and the communication cost is quite high.
Therefore, in enterprises that have not implemented lean, or enterprises with low lean level, the first thing is to make visible changes in enterprises, that is, to make visible improvements. Do what? How? In fact, there is a lean tool that we are all familiar with, 5S and visualization, which will generally be added to team management (the module of production management). If this goes on, the factory will change obviously. Tidy up and make room; Rectification, saving time; Cleaning and finding problems; Visualization makes information transmission more efficient; The class meeting establishes team cohesion and execution. In this way, in a short time, everyone can see the improvement and change brought by lean, which is also the cornerstone to dispel the negative emotions of the team and enhance the confidence and determination of the boss to reform.
2. Long-term visible improvement
With the deepening of lean implementation, while maintaining the above achievements, it is the key to thoroughly solve the short-term and long-term problems of enterprises, especially the bottleneck problem.
For example, in the process of implementing lean in heavy industry, it is found that the delivery problem of enterprises is very prominent. Every day, hundreds of trucks come into the factory to pull goods, and some cars are not ready when they arrive, and the drivers croak as a whole; Some customers complain that they made mistakes after rushing to deliver the goods and missed the delivery; Other drivers complain that picking up the goods has to run up and down several times, and the confirmation link is too cumbersome. Don't underestimate this problem, it contains a series of problems such as planning, communication, process and quality. To solve this problem, we must start from several aspects at the same time.
The above example is to solve the bottleneck problem of enterprises. This is the pain point of the enterprise. If it is solved, a big stone of the boss will fall to the ground The key point of this link is to make the enterprise's QCD (quality, cost and delivery time) better, so that the boss can see the improvement of enterprise management level for a long time and see the tangible improvement results.