Lean, Six Sigma, Quality Transformation Toolkit (LSSQTT)* LSSQTT Tool #20 Courseware Content “Synchronous And JIT Production: Lean, Six Sigma Best Practices”

As has been established previously, the LSSQTT model describes how to add value in the process of producing products. The description as a model is deliberate to help illustrate integration of individual principles within a holistic system. Each part is not fully functional as an individual entity, and the resulting integrated model is one that is greater than the sum of it’s individual elements. The LSSQTT is also a functional courseware designed to help define and do continuous improvement and change organizationally, within a context of the QMS. The LSSQTT courseware provides a template for organizations wishing to transform and change the collective culture, through workers. The essential technological function related to the current discussion is production, a basic requisite for making a profit within the context of change and improvement. The technological change model illustrates production and change based on data and documentation. Production functions, as part of the change model, provides the opportunity to isolate transformations, or processes. While the broader model has technical teams, data, documentation and synchronous leaders at the center, current interest is the act of production, critical to financial survival. Data, documentation and leadership must be synchronized for production to happen competitively. Processing is pivotal to production, built on information relevant to solving problems. Not only is process a requisite to production, but it is where much opportunity for improvement lies. Variation in process must be reduced to bring, and keep, production under control. Production is defined as continuous or intermittent. Intermittent is also called job-lot. Continuous production is "Detroit" style, with assembly lines and high lot-size volumes, lines highly dependent on the other, with highly specialized work tasks and dedicated equipment. Joblot, or intermittent, can be single person production, cottage industries, construction of one-of a kind structures, or a manufacturer, building a small lot of the same product. Intermittent production may use general purpose process, requiring functional, predictable, qualifiable, scheduled and managed for optimal outputs. Intermittent production is also called custom, particularly in construction or manufacturing. Intermittent uses general purpose, non-dedicated processes. Workers in intermittent production operate many different machines, providing flexibility. Continuous, or "Detroit", production is contrasted to intermittent. Each process, specialized and dedicated, is contingent on the others. Before a process can proceed, the previous process must be completed, in sequential order. This requires operations at each process to have predictable and Documentation Tools, Lean