At Leonardo Group Americas, our Principals have 25+ years of experience in lean industrial engineering, specializing in designing manufacturing production lines, implementing material flow systems, and applying lean in the healthcare industry.
Lean industrial engineering and lean manufacturing give you quantifiable boost in operator productivity - all while reducing floor space and freeing up working capital.
We've broken the Lean Industrial Engineering process into two major categories:
1. Mixed Model Line Design 2. Mixed Model Material Management
For the past several years, our successful partnership with Toyota Material Handling has enabled us to bring lean material flow strategy workshops to hundreds of Lean Specialists, Industrial Engineers, and Supply Chain Professionals.
You can find our Toyota-hosted workshops, online courses, and simulation modeling software at our website in our links below ↓
Hello Elios, The Lean Design Simulator is included in our Lean platform, the Lean Design Studio. It's not available as a download. The Studio is a membership site focused on Mixed Model Manufacturing topics, including certificate courses and implementation roadmaps. You can find out more by going to leandesignstudio.com, which will take you to the information page. Thanks, Richard Rahn
Great insight Richard, appreciate the sharing. 2 other useful sustaining tools i am familiar with would be the Leaders Gemba Walk and Tier Boards.....cheers.
Excellent to see Richard making the connection between Lean and machine learning, process modelling, procsss mining and Industry 4.0 … its the future … which is now !
Thanks for your honesty, sir. Everyone in business looks out for themselves. Even simple things, we make it complicated to create confusion and noise to keep the competition away. But there's someone out there who always find a way to get through. :)
Yes the Multi-Bin system would be very interesting to know about, especially if it can be applied without a computer/barcode system. Two bin's simplicity means that it works excellently, even when the barcode/computer system is out of order due to maintenance or updates. I wonder if Multi-Bin can be applied effectively without a computer system.
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Very interesting methodology, I would like to know more about how the Multi-Bin Kanban method works in terms of cards and flow.
So any useful information about actual Lean Manufacturing, NOT flow manufacturing, only comes up at 4:50. Toyota made modern Lean Manufacturing a thing
I clicked on this video completely by accident and ended up fascinated by something so ubiquitous in today's society one doesn't really think about how it came to be. Thank you!
Hi guys. You're 100% right. Very useful video for simulation adepts. I use Witness simulation from some time and can say that the simulation is a very powerful tooll for advanced process design/improvement only if used properly. Definitely this is a tool for every one looking for smarter Lean implementation. Sure you need some computer skills but in today's world without them you're probably very unefficient in process analysis... Additionally, instead of classical Lean Quantity/Time based KPI you are able to lead advanced direct cost KPI analysis which in my opinion gives more interesting business answer. It means that with simulation I know in advance than after implementation of given solution we'd save 100kUSD/year instead of knowing we'd save 10 minutes from actual Lead Time :). When you try to get money to pay that project try to imagine which of these two KPIs arguments speaks better to project sponsor ?
Hi Lean Six Sigma! I don't know what MTC is...that's probably a typo if it shows up. Regarding balancing cycle time to takt time, I have a question for you. If you have takt time of one minute (as an example) and you are mixing products with cycle times of 4 minutes, 5 minutes and 6 minutes, how many workstations would you need? Assuming that the demand for each is the same, would you have 5 (based on the average time) or 6 (based on the longest time)? If you choose either 5 or 6 stations, how much time would you allocate to each station? If you pick 6 you can meet the 1 minute takt time for the third product, but you are over-resourcing the line by designing for a scenario that will never happen. If you pick 5 you resource correctly, but the 3rd product time will exceed the 1 minute takt. I know what we would do, but what are your thoughts?
Well done Richard, I am happy to see you and your company producing articles and videos showing the importance of Flow and how to achieve it. Does Toyota call it 'MTC' ? I use the term 'Lead Time' rather than MCT 'Manufacturing Cycle time'..to avoid confusing with 'Cycle Time' meaning the actual time for each operation or the time between each new product leaving the end of the line. Cycle time should be equal to Takt time ( Takt time being the time that you are trying to achieve to keep up with demand ...such as 1 minute per operation and therefore 1 car produced per minute ) . Is this how you also refer to it when you do classes at Toyota ?
Hi Richard! I really enjoyed this webinar, great value and very well explained the concepts and examples. By the way, pls share the name of the App you used for the web transmission. Best regards, luiz
Hey Luis! We use a webinar service called WebinarJam. It's been great, and the latest version allows me to share a screen and still be seen in a presenter window. Pretty affordable, but not free.
I have a question: How does the plan for every part help if we already have up-to-date ERP system in the company? How will it assist in driving continuous improvement projects?
