Lean Flow Systems improves your business so you don’t have to.
End to End Expertise
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 (what? supply chain? value stream??), and a more organized, efficient workflow that preserves time, cost, quality, and safety.
Unleashing People Power
Continuous Improvement depends upon honest, frequent communication. We believe that the people are the backbone of every company, and we collaborate at all levels to build a higher sense of trust, connection, and fellowship. We teach, and are taught by, our clients and the individuals that make up the whole.
The Pursuit of Excellence
At Lean Flow Systems, we don’t just fix the supply chain, we optimize it. That means that we eliminate waste, improve every standard, and smooth out all bumps in the road to deliver the fastest, most efficient design possible. We deliver more than the basics. You will see a complete transformation.
"In modern industry, harmony among people in a group is in greater demand than the art of individual craftsmanship."
Here at Lean Flow Systems, we define the problem from the root, pointing out to you your mistakes. Then, we do whatever we can to fix those mistakes, as demonstrated by the chart next to this text box. We continuously narrow down the issue until it is so narrow you can’t see it anymore. Filler text. Buzzword. Define problem, find point of cause, drive to root cause, develop solutions, run tests, standardize.
Lean Flow Systems helps you to improve your business by designing many operations and developing people to achieve and maintain superior performance in every aspect of your business. Even more business. This text especially needs to be replaced.
Here at Lean Flow Systems, we define the problem from the root, pointing out to you your mistakes. Then, we do whatever we can to fix those mistakes, as demonstrated by the chart next to this text box. We continuously narrow down the issue until it is so narrow you can’t see it anymore. Filler text. Buzzword. Define problem, find point of cause, drive to root cause, develop solutions, run tests, standardize.
Lean Flow Systems helps you to improve your business by designing many operations and developing people to achieve and maintain superior performance in every aspect of your business. Even more business. This text especially needs to be replaced.
Here at LFS, we back up our claims with tangible results. Behold, the pictures below. Before, the work was not streamlined and it was inefficient. Materials were all over the place. Employees had to walk. After? The work flows, the materials are all within reach, and the employees are able to attain synergy. This is all thanks to the LFS’s cell technology. Utilizing the principle that all elements of work should be wihtin close reach, the LFS cell ensures optimal workflow and efficiency.
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.
Lean Flow Systems is so much more than a company. We are a community. A business. We’re not just helping you. We’re helping everyone. We’re building dreams one step at a time. We’re improving operations with efficiency and streamlined processes. But above all, we put the people first. That’s why we have worked throughout the globe to bring you the top notch skills that you expect from a consulting business. Nothing less than absolute perfection. We are committed to businesses like you. We know how hard it is ironing out your inefficiencies, so why do it yourself? Call or email us today, to start your journey towards a better company, a better future, and a better life.
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Lean Flow Systems improves businesses by designing operations and developing people to achieve superior performance in selection, time, cost, quality and safety.
Our expertise spans many industries:
We have the vision to design great operations, the heart to engage your team and the grit to drive continuous improvement.
Our clients trust us because we approach them with an open mind and a passion to deliver value. We merge the best ideas of Toyota Production, Six Sigma, and Data Analytics to create business systems that develop people, foster teamwork, and make products and services flow efficiently. There are four elements to this approach:
Set the Vision – System Design. Draw up an operating blueprint to deliver superior performance.
Show Heart – Organization Design. Nurture a respectful, collaborative environment.
Have Grit – Improvement Design. Teach a disciplined approach to problem-solving using the scientific method.
Apply Rigor – Process Design. Work at the detailed process level to eliminate waste, unevenness, and overburden.
LFS improves the entire end-to-end business system. The first step is understanding your strategy and assessing your markets, products and services. Second, a deep dive data analysis of your supply chain, including a rigorous current state of the value stream (??). Finally, we develop a target state that reduces complexity, eliminates waste and delivers superior performance in time, cost, quality and safety.
LFS’s work powers clients to dominate key markets and deliver excellent financial results.
A holistic approach ensures world class solutions that optimize the entire business.
Strategy: Solutions improve all areas of the business, achieving world class results.
Suppliers: Set up to drive low cost, high speed delivery.
Processes: Link together to eliminate waste and drive fast, efficient flow of products and services.
Distribution: Designed to minimize distribution costs and provide customers with rapid, flexible delivery.
Market: Customer expectations are well understood and an operating system built to exceed those expectations in selection, price and lead time.
LFS dives deep into process design and develops model areas to teach the team, drive rapid results and construct the target system. Waste is eliminated and a standards-based culture developed. Metric dashboards and visual indicators of process status are installed to measure performance to standard and provide feedback to the team when there are variations from targets.
Processes are built that reveal problems close in time and space to their occurrence and engage the entire team in rapid problem solving.
There are ten major tools used when conducting a rigorous process design deep dive:
Change Over Reduction
Autonomation
Machine Kaizen
Error Proofing
Total Process Efficiency
Flow Simplification
Cell Design
Leveling
Pull System
Strategic Inventory
This suite of tools addresses machine/equipment design, process flow, workplace layout, employee work standards and demand scheduling.
Honest, frequent and accurate communication is the glue to building a culture of continuous improvement. LFS collaborates at all levels of the company to develop processes that connect people, establish trust and build fellowship. We help people grow by teaching them how to better solve problems to root cause.
The LFS approach is grounded in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and is summarized by the following quote from Taiichi Ohno, father of TPS:
Teamwork is Everything
“In modern industry, harmony among people in a group is in greater demand than the art of individual craftsmanship.”
-Taiichi Ohno, “Toyota Production System”
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.
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:
No standard exists
A standard exists but is not being met
A standard exists, is being met, but can be improved (e.g. there is waste inherent in the standard)
LFS helps clients improve their businesses by eliminating waste (muda), unevenness (mura), and overburden (muri) through the execution of the problem-solving process.
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 Whys” or the Ishikawa (Fishbone) Diagram. The scientific method of problem solving is used to ensure a disciplined approch: Problem, Cause, Solution, Action, Measure.
If the 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.
