Lean Program

Do you want to achieve operational excellence, increase profitability, improve the quality of your products, all while saving time and money? Then you are ready to transform your company using the Toyota Production System (Lean) methods!

CBSD’s Lean Department helps companies save time and resources by identifying a strategy to eliminate excess within their operations and manufacturing processes. We assist companies to improve the way they approach manufacturing products and providing services, working with clients to find ways to perfect their business model and cut back on unnecessary expenditures.

Following Lean implementation, business costs will decrease, employees will become more involved in the company and assist in implementing the new changes, and manufacturing and administrative processes will function at optimal levels.

We use Lean principles, concepts, and methods to provide complex, consultative support, focused on your company’s long-term growth and improvement. It is our mission to transfer Lean knowledge and skills to you and your employees, as well as support your team throughout the Lean implementation process. With Lean, we are not simply handing you a set of tools, but helping you to create your own, personalized business system.

The Corporate Business System Development Program: Elaborate, Implement, and Monitor.

Stages
I. Analysis and Program Development: set goals for improvement, embed goals into a strategic planning system, select the proper Lean tools

II. Developing a Plan for Program Implementation: goals, measures, deadlines, resources, performance indicators

III. Program: prepare key company employees, implement transformation projects

IV. Monitoring results (PDCA)

Results of Transformation

· Shorten production cycle by up to 70%

· Reduce time for developing new products by up to 50%

· Reduce the need for production space by up to 50%

· Reduce inventory, work in progress, and finished products by up to 50%

· Improve the quality of products and services

· Increase client satisfaction

· Increase satisfaction of shareholders, management, and employees

Lean at CBSD

We delivered our first Lean course “Introduction to Lean” in 2003. CBSD, jointly with the University of Kentucky (USA), administered “Introduction to Lean” with the inclusion of a simulation business game developed by Toyota at our client, New York International Company’s request. This course became the starting point for Lean program development in Russia with cooperation from international Lean experts.

“Value Stream Mapping” (based on the program by the Lean Enterprise Institute), 2004. That year, CBSD trainers developed and introduced a new course “Building Lean Organization”.

“Lean Office”, along with a series of courses titled “Lean Tools”, was developed in partnership with the University of Nebraska (USA), 2005. In 2005, CBSD specialists took part in the International Lean Conference in Poland, where they won recognition from the worldwide Lean community for achievements in developing Lean projects in Russia.

First Russian Lean Conference, March 2006. CBSD held a conference with the goal of sharing our experiences with Lean implementation, where practicing specialists from companies implementing Lean attended presentations given by Russian and foreign experts, participated in round-tables and media space bridges with foreign consultants, and took part in the Lean-Quiz.

First "Lean Accounting" course, 2006. Delivered by international expert Brian Maskell on invitation from CBSD. Since 2003, CBSD consultants have gained a lot of valuable experience working on the shop floors of client companies located in various parts of Russia and CIS, helping to train employees, and developing Corporate Business Systems. As of 2007, CBSD’s Lean Department has provided a full-range of consulting support for Lean transformations as a part of Corporate Business System Development. Our trainers and consultants have experience implementing Lean projects jointly with foreign experts in the USA, where they were trained an international program administered by the University of Kentucky, Lean Enterprise Institute, University of Nebraska, and University of Michigan. CBSD consultants have also coordinated the Lean transformations at companies such as: York International, «Sveza», «Russkie Kraski», «Yarshina», «NPO MIR», «Micron», «Rusal», «OMZ», «Caterpillar», «TM-print», and many more.