What The Lean Assessment Does

This assessment helps to investigate, evaluate, and measure nine key areas of manufacturing. The result is a deeper understanding of key issues, problem areas, and potential solutions.

Self Scoring - Graphical Results

This format uses an Excel template to record information and score the results. It also allows for weighting the nine key areas to reflect your own processes, products, and markets. The assessment produces a "radar chart" that visually displays results.

Key Areas of Lean Assessment

Inventory
The Team Approach
Processes
Maintenance
Layout & Material Handling
Suppliers
Setup
Quality
Production Control & Scheduling

Lean Assessment Additional Information

The Lean Manufacturing Assessment has a questionnaire that explores nine key areas. There are 3-6 questions for each area with multiple-choice answers. A scoring worksheet totals the score for each section and provides an overall Lean Index.

This assessment allows weighting of the nine key areas. These areas are not equally important in determining overall manufacturing performance. Moreover, the relative importance of the areas varies with particular products, markets, processes, and other factors. The user must evaluate the relative strategic impact of each area.

The weighting feature will also help establish priorities for implementation.

For example, a firm might score very low in the area of "Maintenance". For a highly automated factory with integral processes, a low maintenance score would be a critical deficiency. For an assembly operation using hand tools and manual methods, a low ranking on "Maintenance" would have little impact.

The questions lead to metrics for your Lean Manufacturing journey. Managers traditionally rely on accounting metrics. These are inadequate for Lean Manufacturing. Managing a lean factory requires data that reflects what is happening upstream in these chains of events.

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