Making your Portable Restroom business Lean and mean – How to boost productivity

and increase your bottom line

AGENDA

• What is Lean?

• How can it transform your business?

• How do you get started?

• Common pitfalls and mistakes

• Questions & comments

WHAT IS LEAN?

The research team found, upon studying Toyota and comparing them to the “Big 3” American auto manufacturers, that Toyota was able to produce MORE with LESS:

MORE:•Quality•Value•Innovation•Customer satisfaction

LESS:•Floor space•Inventory•People•Equipment•Defects•Accidents

The term "lean" was coined to describe Toyota's business during the late 1980s by a research team headed by Jim Womack, Ph.D., at MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program.

LEAN IS NOT…

• About laying people off

• A Japanese thing

• Only for manufacturing

• Only for large companies

• A “program”

• Only a set of tools

CORE CONCEPTS OF LEAN PRODUCTION

1. WORK = VALUE ADD + WASTE

Activities which meet the following criteria:• Customers are willing to

pay for it• Changes the fit, form, or

function of a product• Is done correctly the

first time

Activities which meet the following criteria:• Customers are willing to

pay for it• Changes the fit, form, or

function of a product• Is done correctly the

first time

Everything else!

• Increases cost • Lowers quality

Everything else!

• Increases cost • Lowers quality

2. RESPECT FOR PEOPLE• Engage the entire organization to eliminate waste

Seven types of Waste

Excess of Production

Inventory Transport

WaitingMotion

Unnecessary Process

Defects

HOW CAN LEAN TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS

• Increased customer satisfaction

HOW CAN LEAN TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS

• Increased employee satisfaction

HOW CAN LEAN TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS

• Increased productivity (labor and equipment)

THREE COMPONENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL LEAN TRANSFORMATION

• Culture• Operating system• Performance management system

THERE ARE MANY LEAN “TOOLS” TO HELP IDENTIFY AND REMOVE WASTE

• 5S – Workplace Organization

• Single Piece Flow / Cellular Manufacturing

• Visual Management

• Total Productive Maintenance

• SMED – Quick changeover from one product to another

• Kanban / Pull Systems

• Kaizen

5S IS A SYSTEM FOR WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION

Only the equipment, tools and material required for production is kept in the workplace

“A place for everything, and everything it its place”

Clean the entire workplace and all equipment

Use standard procedures and checklists to maintain a clean and orderly work area

Establish a system to monitor 5S to ensure that it is maintained

Sort

Straighten

Scrub

Standardize

Sustain

RESTROOM ASSEMBLY KAIZEN

Before:• Assemble 28 units at a time• 8 operators• ~60 minutes/unit assembly time

After:• 3 teams of 3 operators assemble one

unit at a time• 3 - 9 operators, depending on demand• ~45 minutes/unit assembly time (25%

productivity improvement)

RESOURCES

Questions?