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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing As a trainer tasked with implementing lean manufacturing in UK based manufacturing businesses I am often asked by senior managers "Where should we start? or “Which lean tool should we introduce first"? Without hesitation I always reply, "You must start by getting your people on board". 5S can pave the way to lean success Paul Wilson, Managing Director of Aster Training has rolled out many 5S implementation programmes for companies throughout the UK. Paul tells us about his proven approach in this article.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
"I hadn't really intended to introduce Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), in fact I didn't even know that's what it was at that time, it simply happened as a by-product of another project" recounts Paul Wilson, Managing Director of Aster Training about his early days working as a Production Manager in the north east of England for an electronics company in the 1980's.
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