booklet 3 - lesson 1 ( lean management)

Question 1

Waste Minimisation

Answer 1

The process of reducing the amount of resources that are misused or discarded by the business during operations.

Question 2

Why is waste minimisation implemented?

Answer 2

Waste costs money, this has impact on profit and reduces productivity and as a result is harder to meet business objectives.

Question 3

Lean Management

Answer 3

-Business’s wide approach that aims to eliminate waste and inefficiencies in operations/ whilst maintaining and improving quality for customer
-Aims to maximise customer value improvement without reducing quality.

Question 4

Generic Waste Management Strategies (3 R’s)

Answer 4

reduce, reuse, recycle

Question 5

Lean Management #1 (7 sources of waste)

Answer 5

TRANSPORTATION
INVENTORY: idle supplies
MOTION
WAIT-TIMES
OVERPORDUCTION
OVER-PROCESSING
DEFECTS

Question 6

Lean Management #2 (pull)

Answer 6

PULL= produced based on actual demand rather than forecasting
-IMPACT ON WASTE: prevents unwanted products from being prosuced and then discarded (reduced resources + time + labour)
-minimise overproduction
eg. wedding dress and birthday cakes

Question 7

Lean Management #3 (one-piece flow)

Answer 7

One-Piece Flow: a singe product moving through all stages of production one at a time
-IMPACT ON WASTE: reduces time product spends at each stage of production

Question 8

Lean Management #4 (Zero-defects)

Answer 8

ZERO-DEFECTS: preventing defects from occurring in the production process (not passed on next production stages)
-IMPACT ON WASTE: preventing defects = reduces products discarded or time and labor spent fixing