Benefits

• Improved quality
• Increased profits
• Removal of non-value-adding activities
• Increase in output
• reduced work-in-progress
• Increase in floor space available.
• Change in culture to ‘can-do’ and continuous improvement
• Organisation more aligned to the customer
• Improved safety
• Improved productivity
• Empowered people with increased sense of ownership
• A manufacturing environment that is also a showroom
• Smaller batch sizes
• Increased flexibility
• More frequent changeovers
• Reduced inventory
• Reduction in waste
• Reduction in start-up losses
• Improved equipment utilisation
• Maximise the return on buildings
• Reduced leadtimes