Leading Lean SMTA Chapter Meeting

ExpectationsStagesStage 1: Batch production, departments organized byfunction, multiple scheduling points, workers told whatto do by supervisors, high levels of defects, muchinspection and test.Stage 2: Initial Kaizen events, moving towards cellularproduction, using lean concepts to reduce batches,working on low-hanging fruit, 5S.Stage 3: Start of U-shaped cells, fewer schedulingpoints, reduced travel, start of visual management,some pull.CONFIDENTIAL15