Kanwaljit Singh Bhambrah

The inventory together with six other type of wastes forms the deadly combination of seven wastes identified by Lean (traditionally). The inventory in any industry or sector simply means any order (units, packages, tickets, requests) which is unfinished, unprocessed raw materials, work in progress, assigned, new, basically anything that is not yet being used or in custody of consumer accounts to Inventory. While Inventory is important to the supplier however, if not accurately calculated it can lead to heavy losses to the supplier. The Just in Time approach can help in holding manageable inventory.

A trained GB/BB individual keep looking for improvement opportunities, documentbthen along with the vision. Create a business case using From, To, How, Benefits and Control. The business case for change puts a good amount of weight to gain approvals for implemnting improvement projects.

Mistake proofing, or its Japanese equivalent "Poka-Yoke", is the use of any automatic device or method that either makes it impossible for an error to occur or makes the error immediately obvious once it has occurred. For each error, think of potential ways to make it impossible for the error to occur. Consider: Elimination—eliminating the step that causes the error - Expensive and requires huge investement of time cost and efforts Replacement—replacing the step with an error-proof one - Less expensive than Elimination Facilitation—making the correct action far easier than the error - Inexpensive and has further scope to move up Considering the above definition, it will be best to rate the 4 interpretations. The human error will not happen at all - Ranks 3rd - practically only possible with huge investment of efforts and full automation Human error may continue to happen but the defect will not happen - Ranks 1st - Humans will continue to make mistakes, hence Poka-Yoke can help mitigate the risk and prompt/feedback about the error/mistake Human error may happen, the defect is less likely to happen - Ranks 2nd - partial mistake proofing Human error may happen, the defect will also happen but will be detected and corrected automatically - Ranks 4th - This is not mistake proofing at all - If it can be detected and corrected automatically then there is a scope of full automation.

Root Cause Analysis means conducting a deepdive on a problem to reach the source of problem i order to fix it and permanently eliminate the problem l. Quite often people confuse a symptom to be a root cause. A will have a solution, but symptom will give rise to a problem. There are many tools to conduct root cause analysis, the common one is 5Why analysis it can be used when there's one factor causing the problem and for multiple factors to be considered for investigation, one can use Cause & Effect diagram aka Ishikawa.