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03/30/2011 03:16 PM
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I am from Croatia. I work in Kraš - food industry; waffer production (buiscits, cookies). Along with my work at Kras, I am finishing my master , and I still have to write master thesis (Final work). I have found Lean principle very interesting for my thesis and I am asking you, if it is possible to apply Lean principles in Confectionery industry, and if you can help me with some advices on this subject.Lean principles are something new here in Croatia espacially in Confectionery industry . I would like if I can get some advices in doing some researches so I can establish some of hypothesis... There is not much articles about applying Lean inConfectionery industry, or food industry, ...
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03/31/2011 03:49 PM
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Applying Lean principles to the baking (confectionary) industry should be no different than applying Lean to any type of manufacturing. Think of the purpose of applying Lean tools and techniques as being the improvement of process efficiencies, or, obtaining more output for the same or less amount of input resources. Input resources include labor, time, material, space, etc. To the extent you can reduce any of these, your efficiencies should improve. One of the recommended resources to reduce is time. To the extent you can reduce lead time, cycle time, production time, throughput time, or whatever you want to call it, you will simultaneously be reducing costs. As Henry Ford said many years ago, and I believe Benjamin Franklin, "Time is money."
Think of this simple example: Assume you require one day to produce one batch of biscuits. If you can reduce the time to one-half day, you will have doubled your production capacity since you can then produce two batches a day. Production costs wil also be reduced some amount. Your efficiency just went up 100%. While reducing production time by one half may not be realistic in many cases, it nevertheless illustrates that whatever time reductions you can obtain will increase your capacity some amount, and that's just one example of Lean can do for you.
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04/05/2011 09:59 AM
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Thanks for your reply.
But I have a problem with setting my hypothesis, and methodology for my work... No one here in food or confectionary industry uses Lean principles, so I don't have any where to conduct my survey. It would be nice to hear from you some suggestions on setting some hypothesis for this kind of work.
Thanks.
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04/05/2011 04:18 PM
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Damir, I'd like to make sure I understand what you mean by a hypothesis. One dictionary definition of a hypothesis is the following:
"A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation."
One example would be:
"The application of Lean tools and techniques to reduce the amount of time required to produce a product will result in the reduction of the product's manufacturing cost also."
Sam Tomas
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04/05/2011 04:18 PM
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Lean (done correctly) is all about continuously improving people and processes. Many have focused just on improving processes (or just eliminating waste) over the years and haven't really seen the full benefits. The missing link is the continuous improvement of people. If you continuously improve your people, they will continuously improve your processes. If you do that, you will continuously improve your business.
So if you look at the food or confectionary business in your country, is there an underlying and effective process for continuous improvement? If there isn't, you have an opportunity to suggest a very good one.
Tom
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04/07/2011 09:30 AM
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Damir, you've a good and complete example of how to apply Lean principles in a food industry in the workbook "Breaking Through to Flow", by Ian Glenday.
It's available at Lean Enterprise Academy.
Fernando Calderón
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05/02/2011 10:58 AM
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Is it possible thru financial report of a company (or industry), to see how Lean is a company, in terms of current assets, if we talk about supply chain, or pull system?
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05/10/2011 11:26 AM
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Please , I need you to help in making a questionnaire which I'll send to several confectionarry industries in CROATIA, and from their answers would conduct some kind of their "Lean" status or index. And from that point give suggestions for future in implementing Lean in area where is needed.
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01/11/2012 03:06 PM
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Hi,
I have a series of questions available to ask, its used as a scoping tool to identify my clients requirements I would be happy to work with you to develop one for yourself, however looking at the date youposted the request you have probably graduated and now married with 3 kids, let me know if i can help
Lee
www.leansecrets.co.uk
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01/12/2012 09:44 AM
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I havent't graduated yet because I worked in some other project in my firm. I am still at the begining. Your help would be great!
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01/12/2012 09:44 AM
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Yes, and I have two kids... :-)
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01/12/2012 12:10 PM
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Please contact me via lee@leansecrets and when doing so please highlight what you know and any specifcs you want to focus on,
cheers
lee
www.leansecrets.co.uk
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