Lean Manufacturing

Your biggest challenge, in today's increasingly competitive marketplace, is to increase the bottom line while reducing costs.
How do you meet the challenge?
The answer is Lean Manufacturing.

Lean Manufacturing
Lean is a smart approach to doing business.

Lean is making the best use of available resources.
  • Technology
  • Equipment
  • Knowledge and skill of staffLean is supply chain-wide strategy that helps organizations prosper in dynamic, increasingly unpredictable markets.

​Lean is a process that institutionalizes productivity tools such as:
  • Setup reduction
  • Flow, JIT, Kanban
  • Cells
  • 5S
  • Kaizen
  • TPM

​Lean companies create the most efficient and effective organization possible with accurate data, least cost, and a staff empowered for rapid decision-making.

Lean Compliments Existing Programs
We understand that many of you may have improvement programs that are producing some results. Our efforts will not replace them or compete with those programs. Instead, we will complement them, reenergize them, and add to their success. We help to make the toughest step… implementation…a lot easier.
How can we do this?
We analyze the entire supply chain targeting three traditional areas:
  • MUDA - waste
  • MURA - variability
  • MURI - over burden

For example, Lean addresses seven key areas of waste: (Seven deadly sins)
  • Overproduction
  • Defects
  • Inventories of goods awaiting Processing
  • Unnecessary Processing
  • Unnecessary Movement of People
  • Unnecessary Transport of Goods
  • Waiting (under utilization of people and equipment)

​Marino Associates will do a complete assessment and comprehensive report and review with the management team.