What is Strategy Deployment? Also known as Hoshin Planning, Hoshin Kanri, and Policy Deployment. This video covers the the basic concept of strategy deployment - what is it and why is it important? This is one of our Operational Excellence Minutes, a series of short 1-3 minute videos that teach the basics of Lean and Operational Excellence. Presented by EMS Consulting Group, Inc.:

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Welcome to today’s edition of the OpEx Minute, presented by EMS Consulting Group. Today we will be talking about an important concept within Lean and Operational Excellence - continuous flow. One of the five principles of lean identified in the classic book Lean Thinking was “Make Value Flow.” This is an important concept because it lies at the heart of delivering value to the customer. As you may have heard from us before, if a company has truly adopted lean practices, it is continuously working toward delivering a defect free product or service to the customer when it is needed and in the right quantity. So, what is continuous flow?
Continuous flow is a concept that involves working to the pace or heartbeat of the customer- known as takt time. For example, to achieve continuous flow in a process that requires one unit every minute, a continuous flow process must be able to work at that pace- completing one unit every minute. In manufacturing, continuous flow is typically achieved when processes are highly capable, highly reliable, and scale-able to take time. We might think of an automobile assembly line or a U-shaped cell that runs continuous flow. In administrative work, it is difficult to achieve true continuous flow when there are multiple operations involved; however, by cross-training folks and having one person perform multiple sequential operations without delay in between, some degree of continuous flow can be achieved as well. What if you can’t implement continuous flow? Many times this is the case, and we will have a future OPEX minute covering the types of pull systems you can put in place where continuous flow might not be feasible.
If you have an interest in learning more about continuous flow, visit our website at www.emsstrategies.com and contact us. We would be happy to help.

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