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Copyright 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Chapter 5

Process Improvement: Reducing Waste Through Lean

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Overview

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Introduction

• 350-bed hospital located in downtown Seattle

• Chemotherapy patients spending an entire day receiving their weekly chemotherapy treatment

• To improve this process, Virginia Mason has turned to the concepts of lean management pioneered by Toyota

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Virginia Mason Medical Center (Continued)

• They completely redesigned the process• Everything flows to the patient as opposed to

the patient flowing through the process• Lean initiatives have resulted in:

– Savings of $6 million in capital spending

– Freed up 13,000 square feet

– Reduced inventory costs by $360,000

– Reduced the distance hospital staff walk each day by 34 miles

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Xerox

• Established Leadership Through Quality Initiative in early 1980’s

• Focused on improving business processes to improve customer satisfaction, quality, and productivity

• Late 1990’s Six Sigma and Lean being adopted by Xerox’s manufacturing and supply chain functions

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Xerox (Continued)

• Mid 2002 Xerox’s leadership decided to integrate its Lean and Six Sigma programs across the entire enterprise– Called the initiative Xerox Lean Six Sigma

• Xerox estimates that it achieved an initial $6 million return in 2003 based on a $14 million investment in Lean Six Sigma

• Expects even bigger gains in the years ahead.

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Honeywell International

• A diversified technology company with 2004 sales in excess of $25 billion

• Successfully integrated its Six Sigma initiatives with its lean initiatives

• Honeywell competes in four major industry segments

1. Aerospace2. Automation and Control Solutions3. Specialty Materials4. Transportation Systems.

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Valley Baptist Hospital in Harlingen, Texas

• Hospital patient discharge process is often associated with dissatisfaction

• To address this, they utilized Lean, Six Sigma, and change management techniques

• One specific goal was to reduce the time from when a patient discharge order was entered into the computer until the time the patient was transported from the room to 45 minutes

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Valley Baptist Hospital Continued

• Process improvement team began by mapping the current patient discharge process

• The process improvement team developed a new standard operating procedure consisting of six steps for the patient discharge process

• Mean time to discharge a patient was reduced by 74% from 185 minutes to 48 minutes

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Five Lean Principles Five Lean Principles

1. Specify value from the customer’s point of view2. Identify the value stream

– The complete set of activities required to create the output valued by the customer

3. Make value flow through the value stream by eliminating non-value added activities and streamlining the remaining value added steps

4. Have the customer pull value through the value stream

5. Pursue perfection

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History and Philosophy of Lean

• Lean production is the name given to the Toyota Production System– Also known as synchronous manufacturing or

simply lean• The Toyota system is known for its minimal

use of resources and elimination of all forms of waste, including time

• Just-in-time (JIT) is a substantial portion of the Toyota system

• Integral element of supply chain management

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Japanese Approach

• Japan is a small country with minimal resources and a large population

• Their work systems tend to be based on three primary tenets:

1. Minimizing waste in all forms

2. Continually improving processes and systems

3. Maintaining respect for all workers

Slide on each of these

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Minimizing Waste

• Japanese studiously avoid waste– Materials– Space– Labor

• Pay attention to correcting problems that could produce waste

• Operations are constantly fine-tuned to increase productivity and yield

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Continuous Improvement

• Corresponds to the lean principle of pursuing perfection

• Not a one-time streamlining of the system

• Ongoing journey to make continuing improvements throughout the system

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Respect for all Workers

• US industry moving more slowly in this direction

• Japanese firms have respect and loyalty from their workers

• Probably because they should respect for and loyalty to their employees in the first place

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Comparison of Traditional Systems and Lean

Table 5.1

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Comparison of Traditional Systems and Lean (Continued)

Table 5.1

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Priorities, Product/Service Design, and Capacity

• Priorities: with lean, the target market is usually limited and the options are also limited

• Product/service design: engineering in the lean firm designs standard outputs and incrementally improves each design

• Capacity: excess capacities are kept to a minimum to avoid inherent waste, particularly the WIP inventories

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Layout and Workforce

• Layout: with lean, equipment is moved as close together as possible so that parts can be actually handed from one worker or machine to the next

• Workforce: lean strives for a broadly skilled, flexible worker who will look for and solve production problems wherever they appear

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Inventory

• In Japan, inventory is seen as an evil in itself

• It is a resource sitting idle, wasting money

• Reduce the inventories until inventory investment is practically gone

• The result is a greatly improved and smoother production system

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Lowering Inventory Investment to Expose Problems

Figure 5.1

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Suppliers

• With lean, the desire is for frequent, smooth deliveries of small lots

• The supplier considered part of the team• There is no incoming inspection of the

materials to check their quality• All parts must be of specified quality and

guaranteed by the supplier• There is the risk of being dependent on one

supplier

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Planning and Control

• In the lean approach, the focus is on control• Procedures are kept simple, visual, and made

as routine as possible• No planning and forecasting for an uncertain

future• Rather, the firm attempts to respond to what

actually happens in real time with flexible, quick operations

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Quality

• The traditional approach to quality is to inspect the goods at critical points in the production system

• This is to weed out bad items and correct the system

• With lean, the goal is zero defects and perfect quality

• The most important elements are the workers

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Maintenance

• In the traditional approach, maintenance has been what is termed corrective maintenance,– Preventive maintenance is also common

• In lean organizations, the maintenance function assumes greater responsibility and has greater visibility

• The enterprise relies much more heavily on the operator for many of the maintenance tasks– Especially simple preventive maintenance

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Specify Value

• At the heart of lean is the concept of value

• Value is ultimately defined by the customer

• Must consider what and how much a customer is willing to pay

• Another common definition of value is that it is the opposite of waste (muda)

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Seven Categories of Waste

1. Overproduction– Creating more than is needed at a particular point

in time2. Inventory

– Raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods3. Waiting

– Delays that prevent a worker from performing their work

4. Unnecessary transport– Any time a worker or part must move, it is

considered waste

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Seven Categories of Waste (Continued)

5. Unnecessary processing– Having extra steps in a process

6. Unnecessary human motions– Not using the human body efficiently and

effectively

7. Defects– Parts that must be reworked or scrapped

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Identify the Value Stream

• Includes all activities from the raw materials to the delivery of the output to the consumer– Value added and non-value added

• Activities are categorized as:– Value-added

• Patient diagnosis

– Non-value-added but necessary• Requiring patients to sign a HIPAA form

– Non-value-added and not necessary• Waiting for the doctor

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As-Is Value Stream Map for Metal Case Contract Manufacturer

Figure 5.2

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Commonly Used Value Steam Symbols

Table 5.2

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Commonly Used Value Steam Symbols (Continued)

Table 5.2

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To Be Value Stream Map for Metal Case Contract Manufacturer

Figure 5.3

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Make Value Flow

• Erratic flows in one part of the value stream are often magnified in other parts of the system

• Having identified the value stream, the next step is to transform it from the traditional batch and wait approach to one where the flow is continuous

• A key aspect to achieving such a smooth flow is to master-schedule small lots of final products

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Continuous Flow Manufacturing Continuous Flow Manufacturing (CFM)(CFM)

• Work should flow through the process without interruption one unit at a time based on the customer’s demand rate

• Delays associated with setting up equipment, moving work between departments, storing work because a needed resource is unavailable, equipment breakdowns, and so on must be eliminated

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Converting to Mixed-Model Assembly and Sequencing

• Mixed-model assembly, items are produced smoothly throughout the day

• This is instead of large batches of one item followed by long shutdowns and setups and then by another large batch of another item

• No erratic changes are introduced into the plant through customer demand

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Mixed-Model Assembly Cycle

Table 5.3

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The Theory of Constraints

• A systematic way to view and analyze process flows

• Key aspects of the theory of constraints (TOC)– Identifying the bottlenecks in the process

– Balancing the work flows in the system

• Other names are drum-buffer-rope (DBR), goal system, constraint management, and synchronous manufacturing

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Ten Guidelines of Theory of Constraints

1. Flows rather than capacities should be balanced throughout the shop

2. Fluctuations in a tightly connected, sequence-dependent system add to each other rather than averaging out

3. Utilization of a non–bottleneck is determined by other constraints in the system, such as bottlenecks

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Ten Guidelines of Theory of Constraints (Continued)

4. Utilizing a workstation (producing when material is not yet needed) is not the same as activation

5. An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the whole shop

6. An hour saved at a non–bottleneck is a mirage

7. Bottlenecks govern shop throughput and work-in-process inventories

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Ten Guidelines of Theory of Constraints (Continued)

8. The transfer batch need not be the same size as the process batch

9. The size of the process batch should be variable, not fixed

10. A shop schedule should be set by examining all the shop constraints simultaneously

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Implementing the Theory of Constraints

1. Identify the system's constraints

2. Exploit the constraint

3. Subordinate all else to the constraint

4. Elevate the constraint

5. If the constraint is no longer a bottleneck, find the next constraint and repeat the steps

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Pull Value Through the Value Stream

• A way to capitalize on the increasing strategic importance of fast response to the customer is to minimize all the lead times

• Lean enterprises rely on pull systems whereby actual customer demand drives the production process

• A pull system is a control-based system that signals the requirement for parts as they are needed in reality

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Sequential Production System with Two Machines

Figure 5.5

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Kanban Process

Figure 5.6

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Kanban/JIT in Services

• Many services must provide their service exactly when it is demanded

• JIT is being adopted in other services that use materials extensively

• Many of the techniques used in manufacturing are applicable to services

• The advantages manufacturers accrue through JIT provide equal advantages to services

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Pursue Perfection

1. Sort– Distinguish work that must be performed from work not

needed

2. Straighten– Everything in its place

3. Scrub– Keep workplace clean

4. Systemize– Standardized procedures for maintaining order

5. Standardize– Make steps 1-4 a habit

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The Visual Factory

• The objectives are to help make problems visible, help employees stay up to date on current operating conditions, and to communicate process improvement goals

• Problems can be made visible through the use of charts displayed throughout the workplace

• These plot trends related to quality, on time delivery performance, safety, machine downtime, productivity, and so on

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Kaizen and Poka Yoke

• Kaizen translates into continuous improvement

• Lean requires a continuous series of incremental improvements

• Goal of poka yoke is to mistake-proof work activities in a way that prevents errors from being committed

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Equipment Impacts Waste

• Breakdowns– No longer creating value

• Setups– Setup or changeover takes time

• Stoppages– Loss because output unacceptable

• Reduce speed– Running machine at lower rate

• Yields– Waste and scrap too high

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Key Components of a Total Productive Maintenance Program

• Identifying ways to maximize equipment effectiveness

• Developing a productive maintenance system for maintaining equipment over its lift cycle

• Coordinating the work of engineering, operations, and maintenance employees

• Giving employees the responsibility to maintain the equipment they operate

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Benefits of Lean

1. Cost savings

2. Revenue increases

3. Investment savings

4. Workforce improvements

5. Uncovering problems

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Lean Six Sigma

• Merger of lean and Six Sigma• An organization that focuses only one waste

elimination will miss opportunities to enhance effectiveness

• Focusing only on reducing variation also limits the overall effectiveness of the process

• Six Sigma and lean have proven to be excellent complements to each other