•What is Lean Manufacturing?
It is a business system philosophy which focuses on
Quality, Cost & Delivery
Lean focuses on the actions which create value for the customer
>Everything else is waste – typically 95% of activity!
•Reducing waste enables better flow through the system
•Waste is the consumption of resource without adding value.
• Actions can be classified according to value & waste:
•Value adding (VA)
•Essential Non-value adding (ENVA)
•Non value adding (NVA)
•Lean targets the elimination of the Non-Value Added
and optimisation of the Value added.
