https://6sigma.com/when-to-use-lean-six-sigma-and-kaizen/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://6sigma.com/when-to-use-lean-six-sigma-and-kaizen/#comment-25940 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:44:39 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=22271#comment-25940 I agree every situition must be assessed to decide the best approach but from my experience Lean is more a strategy than a simple tool and it’s focusto the Waste elimination across the stream of the operation, through the use of Value Stream Mapping, provides a snapshot diagnostic of the material and information flow from current state, then defining the ideal state allow the team to see what can be an achievable initial Future state, right theret can be defined the strategy which basically is outlined by identifying what are the projects/actions that are necessary to do to achieve that future state. Efforts are then turn into Kaizen workshops, 5S, problem solving, six sigma that will allow to remove roadblocks and get that future state.

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