Maximization Vs OptimizationHow you should use your resources. What is the out come you are looking for. Most of the times, your answer will be maximum use of your resources. Of cause that’s how many traditional organization think. Take machinery in your manufacturing facility as an example. All of your planning will be targeted to get the maximum utilization of these machinery. Any machine idling will be treated as a crime. Say your machinery can produce 100,000Pcs when it operates at full capacity. Suddenly you will have another problem. You will not have the capacity to handle the 100,000Pcs of capacity in other parts of your organization. What will be the end result. Very high pressure on the other activities, bottlenecks, higher WIP increased lead time and quality defects. Lean manufacturing works on a very deferent principle when it comes to situations like this. Instead of using your resources to maximum, lean manufacturing proposes to use them optimally. Simply think about your requirement. Then use your resources so that they will give you the required result. Oppose to the traditional manufacturing system where first priority is the maximum utilization of resources, and goal setting according to that, lean manufacturing makes the best use of its resources in the bigger picture. The result will be a system with no WIP, no minimum order quantities, quality defects etc etc. |
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