Lean Operations and Six Sigma Assignment

Assignment Task

You have been employed as a consultant to implement Lean and 6s within a local SME. The case company details will be provided separately.

You have just less than two months to consider all the available material. After which you are required to produce a written document detailing the options the manager should consider.

Task

1) Critical review of the literature giving detailed examples of where within industry Lean and 6s have been applied, the strategies followed when implementing, the benefits achieved and whether there are any lessons to be learned. Based on what you have discovered provide and justify the use of key performance indicators you intend to measure your improvements against.

2) Create current and future state Value Stream Maps (VSM). To be completed as a group of four.

3) With reference to each side of the factory, (left and right) and relating back to your future state VSM propose approaches which can feasibly be considered when implementing lean and 6s 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; either immediately, within the year or indeed at any time? Noting that you need to refer to the literature when justifying your proposal.

These are two separate individual tasks. One student (B) should assess and propose changes to the lefthand side of the factory, another student (C) assessing the righthand side of the factory.

4) Being able to sustain the improvements implemented through Lean-6sigma initiatives is challenging. Critically discuss, with reference to the literature, how you would ensure that any changes implemented within the case company are sustainable in the long term.

LEAN OPERATIONS AND SIX SIGMA

Please complete this form individually.

Every group member is required to complete a contribution form before the group assignment deadline. If you choose not to complete a form, you will forfeit your opportunity to provide insight into the contributions of your group (including your own contribution) at the stage when the forms are considered.

Your contribution forms will be considered carefully by the lecturer and the module’s moderator. Your own indication of your own contribution will be taken into account along with the forms from your peers. As well as this contribution form, contributions may also be determined through the following method: Interview. This second method will be used if there is not a clear enough picture from the contribution sheets alone.

You ideally all contributed the same. Marks for the assignment will be adjusted according to the departmental approach if there is clear evidence that at least one student has not contributed as much as the rest of the group. If there is clear evidence, the contribution forms will be used to determine how much less a group member has contributed and their group mark will be adjusted by a standard amount. When filling in the contribution form, take into account the size / complexity of the tasks carried out by each group member.

If someone has done more work than the others, marks will not be increased to reflect this. However, group size and the number of students contributing to an assessment will be taken into account. Expectations will be adjusted based on this. 

Note that contribution is more than attending meetings. Each group member needed to contribute to the work that was produced. It is possible for someone to gain a mark of 0 even if they have attended meetings and classes if it is clear they haven’t contributed to the work submitted by the team.

If you have any concerns about how the marks are awarded, please talk to the lecturer. Note that, like all marks, marks are provisional until they have been through an assessment board. Note that we cannot disclose how we have dealt with the marks of other students as it’s confidential to each student.

Questions

1. How many people were in your group (including yourself)? 

2. Who were the members of your group?

3. Do you think everyone in your group should obtain the same mark?

4. Briefly explain why (you can refer to the second measure of contribution if appropriate):

5. Consider the contribution that you and the other group members made to the group work. Give each person in your group (including yourself) a score for each of the criteria below. You should award a score of 0 for no contribution, 1 for a contribution below the average, 2 for a contribution which was about the same as other group members and 3 for a group contribution which was above the average.

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