5 Reasons Why Lean Training is Essential for Shop Floor Engineers
Plus 2 Quotes and 1 Quiz to kindle your thoughts.
Many companies do not provide training to the Shop Floor engineers. Most of these engineers learn from their bosses / peers. This provides a shallow knowledge and does not help in improvements. Inefficiencies remain and creates frustration among the team members.
Why Lean Mfg Training is Essential for shop floor engineers?
Eliminate Waste: As frontline operators, engineers can spot and cut inefficiencies—overproduction, excess inventory, downtime—using Lean tools like 5S and value stream mapping.
Drive Continuous Improvement: Training empowers them to identify bottlenecks, suggest fixes, and sustain a proactive improvement culture.
Boost Ownership: Engineers shift from task-doers to problem-solvers, enhancing morale and accountability.
Systematic Way of Working: Company moves from a fire-fighting mode to a planned and a systematic way of working, resulting in smooth flow of operations
Improvement in Employee Morale: All the above improvements lead to higher morale among the team and reduce attrition.
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2 Quotes on Lean Manufacturing:
Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System:
"All we are doing is looking at the timeline, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that timeline by removing the non-value-adding wastes."James P. Womack, co-author of The Machine That Changed the World:
"Lean thinking is not about doing more work with less effort; it’s about doing only the work that adds value and letting the rest go."
1 Quiz for the week:
Which lean concept encourages stopping production to fix problems immediately?
a) Heijunka
b) Jidoka
c) Kaizen
d) Genchi Genbutsu
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