So you plan on implementing lean manufacturing at your plant, and you wonder what impact it will have on your culture. It will have a huge impact. If it doesn’t, you did not successfully roll out lean.
Simply put, lean is a focus on the elimination of waste, which means changing the way you “identify” and “react” to waste. The best way to launch and sustain lean is to change the mindset and behaviors of your associates. Lean is based in educating and empowering the front line to improve your process at any level that reduces complexity, reduces variation, lowers cost, saves time or removes any form of waste.