Lean has had some success at Wausau. What should the management’s next steps be in: a) Making further Lean improvements Wausau is facing a shortage both in experienced labor and reliable equipment. They rarely hire new employees‚ and older employees are close to retirement. Furthermore‚ Wausau generally has a culture suspicious of change‚ and employees and managers are resistant to Lean progress. Employees are not motivated to accept lean or previous management methodologies because of the feeling
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permissions. WAUSAU EQUIPMENT COMPANY: A LEAN JOURNEY (A) History and Business Background Ashford Elevator Company was founded in 1946 in a small midwestern town. Its first products were grain elevators‚ sold to local co-ops and farms. Started as a small shop with five workers‚ the company‚ which quickly grew to include 50 employees‚ began engineering‚ manufacturing‚ and servicing a variety of machinery and equipment for the agribusiness industry. The company changed its name to Wausau Equipment Company
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Wausau Equipment Company Case study Wausau Equipment Company has improved their operating profit a lot by introducing lean strategy. The management’s next step should be in making further Lean improvements. As we know‚ “SIMPA” is widely used in Lean process. “SIMPA” stands for Specify Value‚ Identify Value Stream‚ Make it Flow‚ Pull and Always Improving. These phases draw a big and long-term picture to lead a team logically from detecting the problems to solving the problems and make sure that
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Lean implementation The lean implementation described in the book “Journey to lean”‚ written by Drew‚ McCallum Roggenhoffer describes lean‚ the set of principles‚ practices‚ tools and techniques to address the root causes of the operational under performance. Lean is a systematic approach of eliminating the sources of loss from entire value stream in order to gap between actual performance and the requirement of stakeholders. They authors describes the three kinds of losses as variability‚ inflexibility
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Introduction Lean thinking is a strategy that completely eliminates waste while doing more with less efforts‚ equipment and time (Wormack & Jones‚ 2003). Its implementation is somehow difficult as many organizations believe they have achieved lean why they are not. Implementation of lean should critically analyze the following ; elimination of waste‚ production strategy‚ quality control‚ quality improvement‚ management and employee commitment‚ vendor and supplier participation. (Marodin & Saurin
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------------------------------------------------- Office Equipment Company Case Study ------------------------------------------------- International Management CONTENTS I. SUMMARY II. THE PROBLEM III. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS IV. BEST SOLUTION V. IMPLEMENTATION OF BEST SOLUTION I. Summary The Office Equipment Company OEC was a company that manufactured a wide variety of small office equipment in eight different countries. In one of the‚ El Salvador‚ they encountered the problem
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Weaver’s products which is one of the largest U.S drug firms. Leonard Prescott‚ vice president and general manager of Weaver Pharmaceutical believed that his executive assistant; John Higgins has lost his touch to effectively representing the U.S parent company and too attached to Japanese culture. Higgins and Prescott both have different opinions toward implementing U.S. policies in the Japanese operations. Higgins’s attitude was seen more against the U.S. policies and more toward the Japanese ways of doing
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Lean Manufacturing‚ 5S and Six Sigma Page 1 of 8 We’re big fans of lean manufacturing practices‚ 5S and Six Sigma based on the results we’ve seen in metal casting plants as well as in other manufacturing companies. If you are not embracing and implementing these concepts‚ chances are your company is not moving forward. If you are not continually improving you are moving backwards relative to your competitors. LEAN MANUFACTURING Lean manufacturing is the implementation of the concept
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Problem 1: A project of equipment purchase of Mekong Company Ltd. has the estimated data as follows: The cost of equipment is USD 12‚000‚ the cost for transportation and installation is USD 1‚000 USD. The asset is depreciated according to a straight line depreciation scheme within 5 years. It is expected that the project can produce and sell 7‚500 units of product at the price of USD 2 per unit‚ for the first year. The operating costs for the first year (excluding depreciation) are estimated
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proofing</OPTION1> <OPTION2>Iterative testing</OPTION2> <OPTION3>OA</OPTION3> <OPTION4>Early testing</OPTION4> <ANSWER>Mistake proofing</ANSWER> </Main> <Main> <QNo>2</QNo> <QUESTION> ______________ is the critical starting point of Lean thinking</QUESTION> <OPTION1>Project Value</OPTION1> <OPTION2>Customer Value</OPTION2> <OPTION3>Value Addition</OPTION3> <OPTION4>Program value </OPTION4> <ANSWER>Customer Value</ANSWER> </Main> <Main> <QNo>3</QNo>
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