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Best Practices Mini-Assessment
Lean Enterprise

Great companies strive to reduce waste, increase flexibility, and decrease lead times while still providing their customers with high-quality products by employing a variety of lean manufacturing techniques. How does your company compare against the best? Take our mini-assessment to find out!

Our company's sales per employee (total sales divided by number of full time employees) =   
The number of times our inventory turns over per year =   
Our percent of on-time deliveries =   
Our product passes quality checks the first time through of the time.
The time to change-over our key process measured from last good piece to first good piece of next product =   
The percentage of unplanned downtime of key equipment =   
The percentage of product lines that are set up to manufacture product with minimal WIP between steps =   
Our workstations contain posted and updated standard work procedures:   
Our operators are cross-trained:   
Reduction in throughput time during the last year on our key product(s) =   
Our scrap rate =   
We have visual controls (signs, pictures, procedures, etc.) in place at of our workstations.
The number of suggestions implemented per employee per year =   
Dedicated continuous improvement (Kaizen) events held per year =   
The percentage of on-time delivery from our major suppliers =   
Equipment currently covered by a Total Productive Maintenance program =   
The percent of product families for which the value stream has been mapped =   
The percent of plant areas that have a sustainable program for cleaning, sorting, and removing unused items/equipment and organizing remaining items using the 5S Methodology =   
Our workforce is organized in empowered teams to address performance, quality, or safety issues:   
Team meetings are held:   

  

  Your Score: 

  What Your Score Means

Assessment courtesy of our NIST/MEP partner, Virginia's A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP).

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