Strategy Behaviors
A lean manufacturing tool used to analyze, design, and manage the flow of materials and information required to efficiently supply a product to a customer.
Value Stream Mapping
Is intended to empower all employees to solve problems using data and other tools to understand and resolve root cause.
Problem Solving Process
Emergency preparedness and response ensures a fast response to protect employees, the business, and the environment.
Business Continuity and Emergency Preparedness
Documenting the most efficient method of producing a product or completing routine activities to create standardized procedures.
Standard Work
How do we empower our teams to be agile and continuously improve the business?
Empower People
A key element to aligning projects and priorities business success. It is an annual process and flows from the top of the organization down to plants and site teams.
Long Range Planning
Documents the current best process for each operation.
Standard Work
Lean is a never-ending cycle of the elimination of waste, coupled with a commitment to total customer satisfaction and a commitment to employee involvement.
Lean Commitment: Results and Respect for People
Creating an uninterrupted flow of product, information, and processes to deliver value to the customer.
Flow
How do we deliver quality products to our customers with focus across the supply chain?
Quality
The primary purpose is to ensure the continuous and efficient operation of production processes by minimizing downtime, reducing repair costs, extending the lifespan of assets, and proactively planning capital upgrades.
Maintenance Strategy & Execution
Small or large change for the good and an ideal culture uses both while always including individuals that do the work within the targeted process.
Kaizen Culture
Supports Lean by showing that leadership is leading by example which drives leaders to spend time ensuring processes are performing as expected, therefore metrics results will follow.
Leader Standard Work
The right parts, in the right quantity, at the right time to align with customer requirements.
Just In Time
How do we collaborate across the supply chain to ensure product design provides value for the customer while being optimized for efficient manufacturing and material cost?
Design for Manufacturing
This plan is visible, aligned with the strategic plan and actions are tracked as part of the Business Control Center (BCC).
Lean Transformation
Ensures that normal and abnormal conditions are easily identified to increase the speed of decision making, improving performance, and identifying continuous improvement opportunities.
Visual Factory, 5S, and Waste Elimination
Leaders achieve the organization’s goals both in results and in the way people work to achieve them
Leading with Lean
The pace a unit should be completed off the line based on the customer demand.
Takt
How do we identify and harness technology to optimize work and eliminate non-value added processes?
Digital & Innovation
The purpose of this objective is to ensure consistent execution on the shop floor with a minimal amount of systemic waste from goods receipt to point of use.
Material Flow (Purchased & Manufactured)
The performance boards provide quick visibility of current performance, are easy to update, and quickly understood by utilizing red/green colors, consistent layouts, and a strong tie to improvement actions.
Daily Management
Provide guidance to cross-functional teams observing the process to identify risks and opportunities
Layered Process Reviews & Gemba Walks
Identification and tracking of defects followed by using problem solving tools to eliminate occurrences.
Quality
How do we anticipate and forecast market opportunities, align and execute plans, deliver on our financial commitments and enable agility to sustain market leadership?
Business Execution