Building the
Reliability Foundation for Lean, TPM & Six Sigma
An iPresentation Tutorial by Darrin Wikoff, CMRP, Life Cycle
EngineeringJoin
Darren Wikoff in this 9 minute iPresentation Tutorial to learn that
the primary reason that most organizations fail to fully achieve the
benefits of Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, or Six
Sigma initiatives is instability or variation in the manufacturing
process.
Variation in the
manufacturing process creates the need for safety reserve
inventories and excessive amounts of Work In Process (WIP), but if
the intent of Lean is to remove these reserves and WIP in order to
achieve Just-In-Time practices then the process must be dependable,
consistent, and reliable.
Reliability is then the
foundation for Lean and the enabler of a stable production process.
Within this foundation we see that Equipment Reliability is the
cornerstone.