Lean Tools For Apparel Industry

We have discussed many lean tools in our lean tools series. This post by our guest consultant is about the lean tools in apparel industry. Read On...

"Eight Lean Tools" defined as waste elimination tools. With lean manufacturing we mainly focus on waste. Waste defined as “Anything that adds Cost to the product without adding Value”.

Total productive Maintenance:

“The Combination of Best features between Productive & Predictive Maintenance by innovative Management strategies With total employee Involvement.”

5s :

“Through sort, set, shine, standardize and sustain create better workplace organization”.

Visual factory:

“The use of controls that enable an individual to immediately recognize the standard and any deviation from it”.

Standardized Work Process:

“It is the current agreed upon best method to complete the work in a process.”

Quick changeover:

“Team-based improvement activity that significantly reduces setup and changeover time.”

Kanban:

“A signal, usually a card, used to signal the movement or production of materials.”

Error Proofing:

“The prevention of making errors, which would result in defects and lost time.”

Problem solving:

“Using the systematic problem solving tool to sort out problem.”

Workload/Line balancing:

“Through balance workload among work station creates Continues flow.”

We will discuss each of these tools in detail in the future posts.