IMP-02 — LEAN TOOLS

The practical kit, embedded with your crew.

5S, standard work, visual management, quick changeover (SMED), error-proofing — the working tools of lean, applied where your constraint actually is. No banners, no Japanese vocabulary quiz: each tool lands as standard work your team wrote themselves.

Scope this engagement All four disciplines

WHAT YOU GET

The deliverables, plainly.

TOOL-01

5S & visual management

Workplaces organised so abnormal is visible at a glance — and stays that way because the standard is the crew's own.

TOOL-02

Standard work

The best current method documented by the people who do it — the baseline every improvement measures against.

TOOL-03

SMED & error-proofing

Changeovers halved by moving internal work external; defects designed out at the source instead of inspected out at the end.

SEQUENCE — HOW IT RUNS

STEP 01

Pick the constraint

One line, one cell, one problem — not a factory-wide programme.

STEP 02

Train in the work

Short floor sessions, then straight to application.

STEP 03

Apply & standardise

The tool applied, the gain measured, the method written down.

STEP 04

Audit the habit

Four-week follow-up: is the standard holding without us?

TYPICAL ENGAGEMENT

2–6 weeks per cell

WHERE IT FITS

After the map says where; before automation spend

OUTPUT

Standard work, visual controls, measured gain

Q&A

Yes — warehouses, labs, kitchens and back offices all have flow, waiting and rework. The tools translate directly; only the examples change.

Yes — scoped on a call, quoted fixed in writing. Improvement engagements also state the meter we'll measure the gain on, so success is defined before we start.

NEXT STEP

Put a number on the constraint.

A thirty-minute call, the meter agreed, and a fixed-price engagement in writing.

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