Maintenance and Lean Consultancy
Using Lean Manufacturing To Reduce Costs
Lean Manufacturing is important in reducing inefficiency and waste. However to achieve success in lean manufacturing requires reliable equipment, and this can only be achieved by addressing your maintenance. Engaging Maintenance within a Lean programme can deliver as much as 50% more in terms of performance benefits. This is the true potential of the value adding role of maintenance. Sustainability can then only achieved by ongoing training, and more importantly the engagement of all your staff.
MCP deliver a Lean Manufacturing strategy by:
1. Assessing your Manufacturing Operations and Benchmarking your organisation against world class standards.
- Identifying and eliminating all areas of wasted activity is the first step in improving maintenance performance.
- Get the basics right! It is truly amazing that companies attempt to implement one or more of the advanced techniques such as six sigma when they haven’t overcome many of the basic barriers to productivity improvement.
2. Addressing your maintenance processes and systems
3. Training and working with your staff in the tools and techniques of Lean Manufacturing
4. Supporting staff through a culture change to embed new ways of working
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Maintenance to support your Lean Manufacturing Strategy
MCP has developed an engineering diagnostic approach which incorporates the principles of Lean with best practice in maintenance engineering. The diagnostic is seen as the first stage in an ongoing improvement programme.
Programme Objectives - Combining Lean with Best Practice Maintenance:
- Achieve productivity and efficiency improvements
- Identify the scope for any cost efficiencies
- Develop and provide best practice maintenance and engineering solutions
- Understand what maintenance engineering excellence looks like
- Determine the performance measures needed to drive improvements
- Identify the size of potential benefits
- Develop an outline action plan for your site
Programme Benefits - Combining Lean with Best Practice Maintenance:
- Improved plant reliability and performance
- Reduction in the cost of maintenance
- Implementation of best practice solutions to drive improvement
The phases of the project will be:
- Diagnosis and assessment, incorporating Process Mapping
- Development of improvement plans - Continuous Improvement
- Implementation of improvements - including 5S and the 7 Wastes.
Find out more about MCP's Engineering Diagnostic approach to help you support your Lean Manufacturing Programme.
Training to Support your lean manufacturing programme
If you are new to maintenance or work in production or operations, and need an understanding of how maintenance can be the determining factor in whether your Lean Manufacturing strategy succeeds or fails, then MCP’s new course might just be the one for you. Launching this new, 2 day training course entitled ‘Maintenance Explained’, MCP will teach how, the fundamentals of good maintenance management in a manufacturing or service environment, can lead to cost savings, efficiency improvement and most importantly reliable equipment. Tell me more about the Maintenance Explained training course.
Reduce your costs within 6 weeks with our production improvement programme, which utilises Lean manufacturing techniques.
The Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) asked MCP to develop a Lean toolkit for their consultants in assisting organisations ... Lean Manufacturing at SMAS