Lean Enterprise

In 1984, a group of researchers from MIT set out to study the state of the automotive industry worldwide. Their 5 year project took them to 90 plants in 17 countries. The results documented the reasons the Japanese were taking the lead in the international auto industry through advanced manufacturing techniques. The MIT group defined and published these techniques, which were to become known as Lean Manufacturing.

In the 15 years since the publication of this ground breaking study, Lean Principles have been adapted to every type of business. The results have included significant increases in productivity, improvements in space utilization, and drastic reduction of delivery lead times.

Sharpe Concepts’ Lean Enterprise professionals have worked with Manufacturers, Distributors, and Service Providers to achieve measurable results. Based on your requirements, we offer training and implementation services on all facets of lean enterprise:

• Overview Training to assure that all your employees understand the basic concepts of this exciting concept.
• Implementation of a system of Visual Controls designed to make your operation more efficient and less dependent on paper and language.
• Development of a Value Stream Map, designed to provide a simple, visual representation of your organization’s efficiencies.
• Reduction of setup times, whether it be for machines, processes, service calls, or anything your company provides.
• Evaluation of your production equipment in order to produce a Total Productive Maintenance plan – designed to assure you throughput for your critical processes.
• Utilization of Kaizen events to produce giant leaps forward in short periods of time.
• Assistance in setting up Cellular Manufacturing for increased throughput, quality, and responsiveness.

Let a Sharpe Concepts consultant explain which if these established methods will help your business move forward.