You have been employed as a consultant to implement Lean and 6? within a local SME. The case company will be provided separately. You have just less than two months to consider all of the available material. After which you are required to produce a written document detailing the manager’s options. (Resigning is not one of them!) Task: 1) Critical review of the literature giving detailed examples of where within industry Lean and 6? have been applied, the strategies followed when implementing, the benefits achieved and whether there are any lessons to be learned. 2) Create current and future state Value Stream Maps (VSM). 3) Relating back to your future state VSM propose approaches which can feasibly be considered when implementing lean and 6? manufacturing principles within the case company. Stating where the most benefit would be gained. While documenting your implementation plan are there any tools and techniques which you would not implement? 4) Being able to sustain the imprpvements implemented through lean-6sigma initatives is challenging. Discuss, with reference to the liturature, how you would ensure that any changes implemented are sustainable in the long term. Conditions of Assessment • To be completed on a wholly individual basis. • It is expected that some of the information which you consider necessary to complete this assignment has been omitted and as such you will need to make a number of assumptions. State all of the assumptions you have made in completing this assignment. • Your work should be appropriately and correctly referenced using the APA standard as recognised within the University.. If you are unclear of how to reference your work please seek guidance from the Learning Centre. • You are expected to write 2200 words ±10%. • This assignment is worth 50% of the total assessment load. • Late submission will result in a zero or capped mark being awarded in common with standard university regulations.
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