Lean
Lean is a management philosophy focused on he reduction of the 7 types of "waste". Let us see these types of wastes and how edinn® M2 uncovers and helps to reduce them:
- Overproduction: edinn® M2 includes view and manage of the scheduling functionality which allows to see in real time overproduction.
- Time of delay: edinn® M2 includes a complete status and time usages analysis.
- Transport: edinn® M2 includes a consumption module and a complete status analysis. Both will uncover transportation times.
- Excess of processing: edinn® M2 includes a complete status and time usages analysis.
- Inventory: edinn® M2 includes Stock and traceability functionality as part of its included MES.
- Movement: edinn® M2 includes a complete status and time usages analysis.
- Defects in manufactured products: edinn® M2 includes quality improvement tools.
Eliminating waste, quality improves and production time and costs will be reduced.
Lean is basically obtaining the correct things at the correct place, at the correct moment, the correct amount, reducing waste, being flexible and open to change.
One of the key principles of Lean is Continuous improvement - reduction of costs, quality improvement, increase of productivity and sharing information.