Lean Manufacturing

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.

Exactly what is Lean Manufacturing?

• 1. Lean is a smart approach to doing business.
• 2. Lean is making the best use of available resources.

• 1. Technology
• 2. Equipment
• 3. Knowledge and skill of staff

Lean is supply chain-wide strategy that helps organizations prosper in dynamic, increasingly unpredictable markets.

3. 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:

For example, Lean addresses seven key areas of waste: (Seven deadly sins)

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