What is Lean?

Lean is a methodology proven to drive outstanding business performance by improving processes and enhancing customer value through systematically eliminating waste.

PMI’s Lean methodology offers additional insight into understanding customer value and how to tackle different types of waste.

This will lead to:

  • Increased customer satisfaction
  • Reducing costs and lead times
  • Increased efficiency within your processes

Lean is based on the same principles and uses complimentary methodologies as Six Sigma.  Within PMI we use a common structured approach to improving processes.

What’s involved?

PMI’s Lean methodology involves:

  • A structured approach using the Improvement Cycle
  • Understanding customer value
  • Understanding the processes that create customer value
  • Creating  flow through the process
  • Matching process flow to customer demand
  • Balancing the workload and matching the resources to the customer demand
  • Locking in the improvements and standardising the processes
  • Continual improvement in the process

What are the benefits?

  • Dramatically reduce lead time and costs 
  • Greatly improve customer satisfaction
  • Systematic elimination of waste leading to reduction in costs

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