preventative maintenance – Business Performance Improvement (BPI)

bizpi November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 downtime, equipment, Kaizen, lean, preventative maintenance, TPM

Food manufacturer conducts kaizen event to establish new maintenance program

A kaizen event was planned with maintenance managers across multiple facilities in order to improve the preventative maintenance (PM) program.

Lean Six Sigma Bursts

We share our takes and thoughts on a variety of topics related to process improvement (specifically Lean and Six Sigma methods), Bursts are rapid improvement activities, so this sounded like a good word to use for these short audio clips. We’ll try to keep them under 5 minutes each.

In one of my recent Lean classes, I discuss the difference between planning kaizen events and working kaizen events. Planning events end up with a 90-day implemenatation plan. Working events end up with 80% completion of actions by the end of the event, with 30 days to complete the remaining 20% of the actions. I try and encourage more working sessions, but planning is sometimes really important to decide where to focus the working sessions in the future.

To better understand this podcast, watch the State of Washington VSM video (about 10 minutes).

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