Shopfloor Management – Management in Lean culture

Why attend this workshop?

Shopfloor Management (SFM) is a style of management directed at supporting the process of adding value directly at Gemba (production hall). The primary SFM components are:
 - visualization – such designing of processes,
   in order to eliminate barriers
   for material and information flow
   but the status is visible at any time right away,
 - Genchi genbutsu – creating a habit of going to the plant in order to check
   the status and problems, teaching people to see wastage and problems,
 - solving problems and removing barriers making it impossible for others
   to solve problems,
 - vision – development of a vision of a target state and its visualization for others.

Creating added value is the primary aim of a company functioning. Value is the result of a process (value stream). Therefore, the role of the people managing the organization is to improve the value streams, thanks to understanding the rules of lean thinking.
The key to success is effective management, which constitutes in:
 - supporting activities adding value,
 - proceedings in compliance with the agreed and accepted standard,
 - making decisions on the basis of reliable and current indicators.