There are several Lean Tools that can be easily applied in any company no matter of the activity field. The names of most of these Tools (or Techniques) are invented by Japanese and therefore, their name is a Japanese word. If you are curios about the exact meaning of these words, please consult our dictionary.
• 5S
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Poka Yoke or (Fool-Proofing)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Taguchi
• Shainin
• Reducing Cycle Times/Reducing Lead Times
• Kanban
• Level Scheduling
• Quick Changeovers or Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
• Mixed Mode Manufacture
• Bottleneck Process Management
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Nagare

Business Process Management System (BPMS)- a nine step model enables companies to model, deploy and manage mission-critical business processes, that span multiple enterprise applications, corporate departments. BPMS is usually used for lesser mature processes to make them Repeatable & Reliable.

The nine step approach includes:

1. Create Process Mission
2. Document Process
3. Document Customer & Process requirements
4. Identify Output & Process Measures
5. Build process management system
6. Establish data collection plan
7. Process performance monitoring
8. Develop dashboards with spec limits & targets
9. Identify improvement opportunities

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