Company: Jotun
Sector: Process Industry
Key Tools or Services; Value Stream Mapping, Workplace Organisation, Output Improvement, Downtime Reduction, Lean Factory, Warehouse
Configured filling line components & workstation:
Results:
- 7 figure increase in annual sales turnover
- 30% improvement in output through key assets
- 8% improvement in OTIF
- 29% improvement in stock turns
Following a Value Stream Mapping activity, this business embarked on a Picme change programme consisting of a series of facilitated improvement activities. A number of these activities were focussed on driving improvement in the manufacturing areas where 5C workplace organisation was used as a foundation for other tools and techniques to be built upon.
The implementation of 5C was approached by focussing efforts around a single item of equipment. A shop floor based, cross functional team was carried out Clearout, Configure and Clean & Check in a Kaizen style blitz activity. Over several weeks, Conformity and Custom & Practice were developed in the area until standards were being maintained to a satisfactory level. Only when this point was reached and important implementation lessons had been learnt was the process rolled out into the next area.
As well as generating the usual second order benefits associated with making better use of operator time, this particular 5C implementation had a direct impact on equipment throughput. This was achieved by using the technique to standardize and simplify the flow of materials to and from the line, which helped eliminate regularly occurring downtime.