June 25, 2008
Building the Reliability Foundation for Lean, TPM & Six Sigma
An iPresentation Tutorial by Darrin Wikoff, CMRP, Life Cycle Engineering
Join 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.
