Lean Implementation - Maintaining Focus

Many manufacturing firms in the process industry have difficulty maintaining a long-term ongoing focus on lean improvement efforts. To keep a lean effort productive we suggest the following:

- Focus on the big picture.
- Develop goals that focus on long term throughput improvement.
- Exploit the constraints that limit throughput.
- Avoid wasting resources improving non-constraint areas.
- Focus on activities that increase value to the customer.
- Eliminate organizational barriers and policies that inhibit growth.
- Facilitate the creativity and enthusiasm of the workforce.

Improvements in throughput can, and should continue year after year, without proportional increases in costs.

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