Lean Flow Systems improves your business.
Lean Flow Systems delivers a holistic approach to making your business more efficient, Our end-to-end business model delivers to you superior performance, streamlined operations, and a more organized workflow that preserves time, cost, quality, and safety.
Continuous Improvement depends upon honest, frequent communication. We believe that the people are the backbone of every great operation, and we collaborate at all levels to build a higher sense of trust, connection, and fellowship.
At Lean Flow Systems, we don’t just stop at fixing the root problems. We go above and beyond to eliminate waste, improve every standard, and deliver the best operations design possible. We deliver more than just the basics, we deliver tramsformation.
"In modern industry, harmony among people in a group is in greater demand than the art of individual craftsmanship."
Understanding your strategy and assessing your markets
A deep dive data analysis of your supply chain
Creating a target state that reduces complexity and eliminates waste
Solutions improve all areas of the business, achieving world class results.
Set up to drive low cost, high speed delivery.
Link together to eliminate waste and drive fast, efficient flow of products and services.
Designed to minimize distribution costs and provide customers with rapid, flexible delivery.
Customer expectations are well understood and an operating system built to exceed those expectations.
System Design is the skill set needed to develop a world class operations blueprint. There are six major tools:
Developing standardized work instructions is a building block to high quality, high productivity and optimal team coordination.
The organization is engineered as a Help Chain to rapidly deploy skilled people to the value stream when needed. The servant leader model is espoused and taught.
Clear visual indicators, called Andons, are built into the process and communicate problems quickly to the team. The support organization is designed to respond to these triggers and solve problems in real time where possible. Andon response time and problem resolution time are measured and tracked to assess the team’s problem solving capacity.
Your team is the heart of the organization. We believe that there is a deep need in everyone to solve problems and contribute to the success of the company. There are seven key elements to Organization Design:
LFS takes a systematic approach to problem-solving, The goal is to make problems clear to employees at all levels of the company and to facilitate teamwork. A problem is defined as one of the following:
The improvement process is triggered in two ways:
The Root Cause Problem Solving process is launched to solve problems quickly using methods like the “Five Why’s” or the Ishikawa (Fishbone) Diagram. The scientific method of problem solving is used to ensure a disciplined approach: Problem, Cause, Solution, Action, Measure.
If a team cannot solve the problem then more advanced Data Analysis tools are employed.
Strategic Planning is linked to ensure that product, process, engineering, and capital decisions take into consideration the problems being triggered and suggestions of the team being made.
Founding the company in 2016, Nicholas grew Lean Flow Systems to be a thriving enterprise. With decades of experience in operations, he will excel at bringing your business into the light. He is also a father of two and enjoys golf and movies when he’s not working.
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