Lean management
Smoother operations, teams that improve on their own
Lean applied to your processes and the way you manage, by a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. On the floor, with the people who do the work.
The stakes
Operations running out of breath
Lead times keep growing, the same errors come back, everyone does things their own way, and managers spend their days putting out fires. Lean tackles the causes, not the symptoms.
Clear processes
Everyone knows who does what, in which order, and why.
Engaged teams
The people who do the work are the ones who improve it.
Results that last
Measured before, during and after, and kept up by the team itself.
Approach
An engagement in four stages
Every engagement follows the same thread, from the floor to your teams' autonomy.
Understand
On the floor, with the people who do the work: we observe, measure processing time and waiting time, and spot the waste.
Co-design
The improvement plan is built with your teams and managers, prioritized by effort and gain.
Activate
Kaizen events, standard work, error-proofing: changes are decided, applied, then measured.
Sustain
Visual management, team routines, problem solving: so improvement continues after we leave.
Services
What we do
Improve the processes
Lean diagnostic
Observation on the floor, value stream mapping and measurements: a quantified picture of the process, and a prioritized improvement plan.
Know where the time is lost.
Kaizen event
A few days with the team to remove what adds nothing, simplify and standardize. Changes are applied on the spot.
Changes in place by the end of the event.
Lean Six Sigma project
For quality and variability problems: the DMAIC approach, data, and root cause analysis.
Errors fixed at the source.
Build a Lean management system
Visual and daily management
Team boards, short daily huddles, and two or three indicators that matter.
Gaps seen the same day.
Problem solving
A shared method to get to root causes and test solutions, in PDCA cycles.
Fewer fires to put out.
Coaching managers
Coaching on the floor, so your managers lead continuous improvement themselves.
Continuous improvement, without us.
Our commitments
The floor first
We observe before we propose, never from the official procedure.
Measured results
Before and after, on the same measurements, with the numbers to back it up.
Respect for people
Lean removes waste, not people: the time freed up goes to serving better.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Université de Sherbrooke · 10 years in continuous improvement · public and private sectors · Québec
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Train your teams in Lean
Lean Six Sigma belts, from white to green, taught on your own processes.
Contact
Let's talk about your process
A 30-minute call
With Othman Mekouar, founder
- You describe the process on your mind.
- Together, we pin down the question to settle.
- You then receive a quote.
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Write to us
Describe in a few lines the process on your mind. We will reply as soon as possible.
Or by email:othman.mekouar@axenorconseil.com