A Lean Approach to Lean

摘要

1. For companies operating at less than full capacity, simplified market pull (SMP) scheduling is a groundbreaking, new tool for going lean. 2. Not only does SMP deliver outstanding results very quickly, but it also can be put into practice just as quickly, with minimal changes to normal business processes. 3. With condensed lead times and increased consistency and capacity, companies using SMP discover some very powerful tools to bring in more sales. Most lean manufacturing success stories take place in large, high-volume factories that implement flow manufacturing techniques. That's all well and good; flow is a terrific tool for achieving lean efficiencies. But the cost and disruption of transforming the plant to cells and lines, and the complete reinvention of scheduling and work management processes, are daunting, to say the least. And, in some cases, flow just doesn't make sense given the products and processes involved.