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What is the difference between continuous improvement, lean manufacturing and process improvement?

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Question added by Mohammad Adel Abd-alaziz , Deputy Operations Director & TPM Facilitator , Egyptian Starch & Glucose Manufacturing Company
Date Posted: 2013/11/17
Ahmed Abbas
by Ahmed Abbas , Human Resources Manager , Egyptian Saudi Insurance House – Salama:

Continious Improvement: Is a general puropose everyone and everything needs Continious Improvement  , but it needs tools to be done..

 Lean Manufacturing, lean services, and lean thinking in general is a way of life aims to eliminate waste.

 

GOKHAN TASDEVIREN
by GOKHAN TASDEVIREN , General Manager , Ovivo Electric Company

Continious Improvement (CI) is a way sometimes it is a motto, generally nobody can imagine what it includes, but it is a good thing :)

Lean Manufacturing : Infact it is not only manufacturing, it is Lean Thinking and it is a phylosophy. It includes and respects Continuous Improvement and Process Improvement (PI) etc.. The philosophy covers CI and PI techniques and some more and more.

Process Improvement: It is a fact and all companies need it. Process Improvement is like a project which is aimed to improve and develope one or more than one processes in the organisation. Generally most of the processes are combined and interactive with each other so it is generally not applied to one or two processes. It is limited by measurement of processes and/or KPIs and some of process mapping techniques.

Continuous imprevement is a policy that you set-up for following-up inprovement in years.

Process improvement as his name says is directly link to upgrade a process.Lean manufacturing is a methodlogy uses for eliminating waste, the final goal is to improve value of your process/product.  

Awni Al-hade
by Awni Al-hade , Manager , Meade Global LLC

the difference between continuous improvement that belong to the products quailty and employee preformance, but the process improvement by reviewing the process specifecations and process control plan, by removing no-value adding steps, and improving the Cycle time by reducing bottle nick step, also your  Lay-out of your production lines.

Ibrahim Kassem
by Ibrahim Kassem , Factory Production Manager , SC Johnson

If you want to make a process improvment you need to staplish a new project if you are using a continouse improvment you will make a small change for your process to make it more easy 

 

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