It isn’t uncommon for you to be caught up in a fix when you’re trying to finish too much in too less time. Luckily, we have Lean Six Sigma expert, Prof. SK explaining how you could incorporate Lean’s 5 golden rules of problem solving.
According to the Lean savant, the principles are as follows –
- Gemba – Actual place; you must visit the spot or your workplace where the event actually happens or happened.
- Gembutsu – Actual things; Next, you must examine the object, the actual equipment, material, products and other objectives actually involved in the event.
- Genjitsu – Actual facts; Follow this step by understanding actual facts and figures, the phenomenon (what actually happened, what you can actually observe with your own eyes, without any preconceived ideas about it)
- Genri – Principles; Refer to the theory and principles to be applied in the situation.
- Gensoku – Standards and parameters; Follow operation standards and parameters to achieve the desired result.
Let’s understand how a Lean tool could be used following the Lean principles in order to save time and resources. Takt time is a widely used Lean tool which seeks to match the rate of production to the rate of sales or consumption. In the purest sense, it involves producing exactly what your consumers will consume, nothing more and nothing less.
Consider an example where a customer of a textile shop wants to buy 10 shirts every day and the normal production shift of the textile unit is 10 hours.
In this case, applying Lean’s Takt Time would help understand the ideal rate of production. So, Takt time is our Genri. The production unit of the textile firm is the Gemba. The shirts that need to be produced is Gembutsu or the actual things that need to be examined. Genjitsu or the actual facts would involve understanding that 10 shirts need to be produced according to the demands of the customer. Genosuke or the standard parameters is the production shift, which is equal to 10 hours in this case.
Considering all the facts and figures and applying the Lean principles, we arrive at the following formula –
Takt time = available time/customer demand
So, the Takt time in the aforementioned example is 1 shirt per hour, which would ideally help the textile firm to produce exactly the amount of shirts that are required to meet the demands of the customer.
The 5 principles of Lean could be applied in any given aspect of your life and an optimal solution corresponding to the situation can be yielded!
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