Reduce Fulfillment TimeLean companies
- Maintain close relationship between engineering and manufacturing
- Design products that are easy to manufacture, test, inspect and service
- Make few last minute changes to drawings and bills of materials
- Design products to be compatible with existing equipment
Traditional companies
- Have adversarial relationships between engineering and manufacturing
- Accept products are difficult to build on the floor
- Allow many changes to drawings and bills of materials
Benefits of Lean
- Delivers product to market quickly
- Allows few changes on the floor
- Provides excellent product quality and reliability
- Eliminates rework, re-inspection
- Smoothes production ramp-ups, no surprises
- Maintains production schedules
- Lowers costs of product development with fewer re-designs
- Maintains low manufacturing costs