lean thinking

What you would need to know about lean thinking to improve your processes. Lean Banking
First Term:
The concept of Lean or Lean Banking Bank has no fixed definition. In continental Europe, it is used rather than a generic term for both quantitative and qualitative approaches to optimization of internal business processes in banks alike. For this reason, there are those who advocate a lack of content, precision of the term lean banking in the banking industry for the term lean production, pointing out this was due to the study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the future of cars in 1990, entitled "The Machine that Changed the World" was published, filled with content. The information in this study optimization concepts are specific to traditional manufacturing companies. Not all of these approaches can be readily transferred to service providers. It is also to bear industry and activity-specific peculiarities in banking bill. This claim is not just the utterance of Lean Production. Terminology and content aptly Lean Banking recorded so far (similar to an analogy) that can be transmitted to the banking business principles of lean production.

Second Features:
Lean Banking is not a new organizational approach, but a structural optimization, which sees the new divisional organization and the customer group as a substantial part of the eighties. The bank is characterized by slim va:

customer group-oriented organizational structure,
decentralized management structures,
Process orientation and
the reduction of core competencies, complexity and value chains.
It leads to a measurable increase

of service and product quality,
customer satisfaction and retention as well
to a sustainable cost reduction.
Source Quote /: Wirtschaftslexikon24.net

Lean Construction
Lean Construction is to adapt the Toyota Production System in the construction sector. Besides the name Lean Construction Lean management is the term used in construction to. During the creation of a construction lived ongoing process to eliminate waste, reaching or exceeding all customer expectations, focusing on the entire value stream and the pursuit of perfection.

Lean Construction is an integrated approach to the planning, design and execution of construction projects. The roots of Lean Construction (LC) are the lean production, which has revolutionized the design and planning of the processes in the production, procurement and construction literally in some sectors. Based on Lean Construction are approaches of Lean Thinking, which are based on the value creation process in order to maximize value and minimize waste in the processes. By means of specific techniques that lean methods can be transferred to the planning and execution of construction projects - with the following significant improvements:

The planning and execution processes to be viewed holistically and designed to meet the clients' needs better.
The work is organized continuously through the entire process so that the value is maximized and waste is reduced.
The optimization efforts focus on improving the overall performance of the project, rather than to individual sections.
The planning and control systems play an important role and can be improved.

see also:
Article LEANmagazin

Lean Initial Audit
The Lean Initial Audit is a structured collection of knowledge and evaluation of activities of your business. The check should be made up of a series of interviews, which are conducted at various organizational levels, depending on the size and complexity of your business. The audit team has the current status in all key areas and checkpoints work units review.

LIA is thus the systematic inclusion of the technological process. The current value (value stream) as-is for a core product is defined and a documentation of the visible waste produced (Waste Walk) and it is carried out a potential analysis and quantitative determination of the hand Lean metrics (Lean metrics)

Without an analysis of the Lean tools, and tools can not be effective. Lean initial audit should answer the following questions:

Where there is potential in the processes?
Which Is there potential in the processes?
What methods and tools can increase this potential?
Lean Machining
Lean Machining is the "slim handling" of machine tools to provide customized products faster and more cost effectively. To achieve this, some providers have begun to treat their shop as a cell. By performing multiple simultaneous customized processes, the cycle time can be reduced drastically. Not only the product is cheaper, but also the processing time is reduced. The result is that a high quality product can be manufactured in less time for less money.

Automotive Part Production on a Fully Integrated Lean Machining Cell with Gantry Robot


Lean Management
Means .... slim-management. It is a management approach that aligns the entire organization on the principles of lean production.
Under Lean management is a management approach is understood, which is distinguished in particular by the principles of decentralization and Simultanisierung while both within the company and across companies aims to achieve greater customer focus with consistent cost reduction for the whole company management. (Source: Gabler (Editor), Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon,

Lean Manufacturing
Producing a product with minimal resources (labor, materials, capital, machinery, etc.) and in accordance with the delivery schedule.
(Source: TBM Consulting Group http://www.tbmcg.com/de/about/ terminology.php)

Lean Organization
The concept of Lean organization modeled on the ideas of lean management and indicates a leaner organization. The following guidelines are the hallmarks of the Lean organization:
Few levels of the hierarchy
Small organizational units
Low division of labor
(Source: http://www.steuerlinks.de/organisation/lexikon/ lean organisation.html)

Lean Production
Lean production is based on the following principles:

Reduction of vertical integration through enhanced cooperation with partners
Repatriation of tasks, concepts and responsibility to the primary service areas
Simultanisierung: Taylorist task of function specialization in favor of holistic processes and integration and parallelization
Informational networking with dealers, transporters and suppliers.
Lean Project Management
The term "lean" is booming. Especially during periods of low revenues and gross margins organizations strive after, to be slim. This also applies to their projects and project management. It will usually forget what at the "Lean" concepts is all about. In that respect, this method description,

wherein the core of the "Lean" is-idea
how the "lean" can transfer idea to the project management,
what does the "lean" idea for the project management methods. Other applications of lean thinking to come.