Do you know what lean is? Can telecom industry do lean? Is it hard to do? Is there companies in the industry that do lean? Does it work well? Read the following and you will learn more about Lean.
Lean is an operating philosophy based on low inventory, quick response, and high quality customer service. It is known that there are at least 10 large optical communication companies in the telecom industry doing lean, and these companies have very good performance. However, as each industry has its own characteristics, it is difficult for lean to play a role in telecom industry without a correct understanding of lean principles.
1. What is lean?
Lean Production, or Lean for short, is an operating philosophy derived from Toyota motor corp. The research, application and development of Toyota's production methods, including many well-known manufacturing enterprises and professors from MIT, have led to the emergence of lean production theory and production management system, which is still in the process of evolution and development. Lean is through the system structure, personnel organization, operation mode and market supply and demand change, make the company's operating system can quickly adapt to changing user demand, and can make the production process all useless and spare things be cut, achieve finally including market supply, the production of various aspects of the best way of a kind of operation management. In short, lean is an operating philosophy based on low inventory, rapid response, and high quality customer service.
2. What is the difference between lean production and lean operation?
Lean operation covers all operating levels of the company, not just production, of course, production is a big part, in addition to production, supply chain, research and development, personnel, finance, sales, marketing and other business processes of most companies can be lean transformation, a wider range. Lean production, on the other hand, focuses on production transformation and has no impact on other businesses, with a relatively small scope. Of course, the larger the scope, the smaller the scope, the smaller the effect, and lean operation is a systematic engineering, the larger the scope, the greater the linkage of the system.
3. Can the telecom industry do lean?
Although lean can cover all industries and help all industries, the industries where lean plays the biggest role are assembled production and service industry. Most optical communication enterprises are assembled production, so it is particularly suitable for lean. However, as the telecom industry has its own characteristics, doing lean will also have many pits, do not do well will fail.
4. Do any companies in the industry do lean or lean production?
It is known that there are at least 10 large optical communication enterprises in the industry doing lean, of course, the degree and scope of some are different, some are comprehensive lean, all the processes of the company are doing lean, some just do lean production, and these companies have a common ground, achieved very good performance.
5. Is it difficult to do lean in telecom industry?
It is very difficult. Every industry has its own characteristics, and every industry is divided into two parts. Lean is extracted from the development of the benchmark enterprise of the automobile industry -- Toyota motor company. By the time we get here, it has been refined into several consensus and principles. When these principles are applied to other industries, they will inevitably be matched with this industry. Especially, optical communication is a very special and rapidly developing industry, and it is difficult to make lean play a role in telecom industry if you don't understand and grasp the principles of lean correctly.
