Lean Sigma Basics

What is Lean Manufacturing?

Lean manufacturing is to enhance smooth flow in a manufacturing flow by identify and eliminating  7 wastes.(MUDAs).Objective is to keep the pull flow in manufacturing towards customer demand.

What are the 7 mudas?

a) Over Production
b) Excess Inventories
c) Transports
d) Non-Quality
e) Waiting
f)Useless Motions
g)Excess Processing.

Where are they in a Manufacturing Plant?

The First Muda 'Over Production' is in Production Planning by non respect of customer demand.Producing materials in push flow as what ever the raw material we have in our stock to produce.

The next 3 Mudas Excess Inventories,Transports and Non Quality are within the flow.

The another 3 Mudas Waiting,Useless Motions and Excess Processing are within a operation or workstation.

We will see every muda in detail with examples in next lesson.