Is it really ready to introduce lean production?

Increasingly fierce market competition to the survival and development of enterprises has brought great pressure, whether there is a winning "magic weapon" can improve efficiency, reduce costs and expand income, in order to be invincible in the fierce competition. Many companies are looking to the "lean production". We understand from various ways, lean production can obviously improve the operational efficiency of enterprises, from production operation, inventory control and other production systems to greatly improve the production and operation of enterprises, improve work efficiency, reduce costs, improve enterprise management methods, and thus improve the overall competitiveness and combat effectiveness of enterprises.

In recent years, some excellent domestic enterprises began to implement the "Lean production mode", but many enterprises eventually did nothing, the effect is unsatisfactory, why. The author thinks whether the real change of management thought is the key to the success of lean production. The consciousness decides the behavior, wants to carry on the lean production mode, first must change the original thought idea, otherwise, is difficult to receive the effect. A more mature enterprise, the relevant business processes have embarked on a normal track, once the production mode of change, employees worry about whether they will bring some impact on themselves, in order to adapt to the new mode of production and need to make a series of adjustments, will increase the probability of failure, so for the sake of stability and refused to accept the new mode of production, forming ”。 In particular, management has the greatest role in carrying out this innovation, and if they do not change their minds, the promotion of lean production will be entirely a slogan and form, and a sequel to the "All forms" of the company's subsequent changes.

The implementation of lean production, relatively, in the production site is relatively easy to quickly obtain results, many enterprises into the lean production mode, have achieved a phased outcome, however, if the relevant departments in the field with the management of the ideological change in the mind, action without coordination, the effect is limited, and difficult to long-lasting. The reason is that lean production requires technical, quality, procurement and other departments to support, but the domestic enterprises in the implementation of often overlooked, resulting in the entire business process can not run smoothly. Even if the good production line, and then the high-skilled frontline workers hard work, in the original old management thought constraints, will be wasted.

A senior manager of a large state-owned enterprise group in Tianjin has a deep understanding of this: The company started a year ago to implement on-time production, the layout of the production site adjustment is more reasonable, but a year later, the situation is not very ideal, because the relevant departments in the management of the ideological change, management methods do not adapt to the requirements of punctual production The material supply lag, the purchase tracking and the feedback of the company's purchase link are poor, which seriously restricts the improvement of the whole efficiency. At the same time, because the material supply lag and other effects brought a variety of waste phenomenon: waiting for the waste, transport waste, in order to catch the delivery time may be produced by the waste of undesirable products, etc., the implementation of the results were wasted offset. The company's business team to find the crux of the problem, the results found that in the implementation of on-time production process, only the production site manufacturing personnel ideas have been changed, and other departments of management generally think that lean production is the production site, and the department is not very contact, so its management ideas have not really changed, So that the supply of materials and the implementation of lean production site integration. Subsequently, the enterprise through the training of management personnel education, management personnel to promote implementation, so that the management of the idea of change. At present, the enterprise on-time production operation efficiency has been greatly improved, the enterprise also got a rich return.

The above cases should be the attention of all business operators, management has not done a good idea of the change, hurriedly began to introduce lean production, and did not do a good job in the pre-introduction of training to change the staff, especially managers of the ideological concept, resulting in two new and old ideas fierce confrontation. Although some results have been achieved in the field, but because of the lack of foundation and the lack of uniformity, the results achieved in the field cannot be sustained by other sectors and will be stalled and stranded. The implementation of lean production is a system engineering, the need for the company's participation in all personnel, the elaboration of a careful implementation plan, the full range of systematic training, can be implemented in stages, firmly hit the foundation of each link, can not be anxious. Therefore, in order to truly achieve results, please enterprises in the introduction of lean production methods, carefully examine whether the enterprise is really ready.