Transform Your Business With Lean Management

NJMEP creates high performance manufacturing firms through a strategy of transformation, continually eliminating non-value activities associated with conducting business.

Lean Enterprise enables companies to produce more with existing resources while eliminating “non value-added” activities at every level of your organization. Implementing Lean has successfully cut an average of 20% of the time, effort, or costs associated with manufacturing processes.

Ask yourself…

• Are you unable to manufacture more, earlier, and faster than required by your customer?
• Does production stop when an employee is away, or parts are out of stock?
• Do you need to improve the effectiveness employees on the shop floor and in the office?
• Is poor communication and inflexibility slowing down processes?
• Are you missing on-time delivery?
• Are batch sizes much larger than consumption rates?
• Do you perform lots of re-work?

If you answered “Yes”, your solution is NJMEP’s Lean Enterprise.

What is Lean Enterprise?

Lean Enterprise is  a methodology for assuring your customers receive the best value for dollars spent on your products. It is a proven, highly successful solution for eliminating non-value activities, reducing lead times, increasing productivity and improving quality and throughput.

Encompassing both Lean Manufacturing, and Lean Office, Lean Enterprise provides your customers what they want, how they want it, when, and where they need it.

Our Lean process creates a cash-to-cash powerhouse approach. It eliminates waste, over production and outdated scheduling systems. It creates a systematic flow throughout your entire organization and simplifies the process of developing and implementing a long term strategy to streamline your operations.

Lean Enterprise…

• Speeds cash to cash cycling
• Identifies and quantifies improvement opportunities
• Provides value to your customer with the minimum amount of resources
• Aids in filling open capacity
• Can improve your operation up to 400%
• Reduces non-value added wastesBecomes your change agent
• Teaches discipline in your operation
• Reduces and eliminates re-work costs
• Defines replenishment of resources
• Reduces inventory costs
• Improves on-time delivery
• Improves quality
• Speeds changeovers
• Reduces downtimes
• Optimizes the skill and utilization of your associates

Lean Enterprise includes Lean Manufacturing and Lean Strategies for the Office. Lean focuses on the flow of information as it passes from one hand to the next. The Lean process identifies and eliminates waste within the organization which creates greater efficiencies. 

The “Eight Wastes” that are either reduced or eliminated immediately after NJMEP’s Lean Manufacturing principles are implemented are:

1.    Downtime
2.    Excess Inventory
3.    Defects
4.    Underutilization
5.    Waiting
6.    Transportation
7.    Overproduction
8.    Non-Value Added Processing

How will my company benefit from becoming a Lean Enterprise?

Becoming a Lean Enterprise positions an organization to effectively compete in the market place by improving inventory control, addressing capacity issues, delivering goods on-time and resolving other problems that  can effect a company's ability to grow and compete. From a global perspective, competitive threats from overseas and lack of ISO certification can also be effectively addressed by becoming a Lean Enterprise. 

The Rewards Of Becoming—And Remaining—Lean

Lean Enterprises experience:

• Higher Profits
• Greater Productivity
• Increased Sales
• Improved Quality
• Greater Throughput
• Reduced Costs
• Better Cash Flow
• Improved Employee Morale
• Faster Speed-to-Market

How will my company benefit from becoming a Lean Enterprise?

Becoming a Lean Enterprise positions an organization to effectively compete in theYour journey to success will be implemented in four stages; opportunity identification, solution design, implementation, and continuous improvement. NJMEP will assist you in managing the transition every step of the way.

Why work with NJMEP?

NJMEP, a non-profit, is dedicated to assisting New Jersey manufacturers remain competitive in a global economy. Our instructors have over twenty years of experience in the manufacturing industry and are certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the founder of the Lean practices we utilize.  As a member of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) network we receive Federal funding, which keeps costs to our clients low, making NJMEP the smart choice for NJ companies.

Our unique ability to tap into a nationwide network of 59 MEP centers for information and our partnerships with public and private sector industry specialists gives us the ability to provide the kind of quality leadership in Lean Manufacturing you can trust.

To learn more about Lean Enterprise Click here or call us at (973) 998-9801.