{"id":2825,"date":"2016-06-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpulse.cloud.fruitionqa.com\/use-cmms-software-support-lean-manufacturing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:29:35","slug":"cmms-support-lean-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpulsesoftware.com\/blog\/cmms\/cmms-support-lean-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Using CMMS Software to Support Lean Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you eliminate waste in your organization?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the basic tenant of lean manufacturing\u2014an idea that continues to develop after decades of refining by some of history\u2019s top business managers. The term was coined by James Womack in his 1990 book, The Machine That Changed the World<\/em>, although its roots lie in the Toyota Production System of the 1950s.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, lean manufacturing considers the use of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful.<\/p>\n

It will come as no surprise to maintenance professionals that lean manufacturing has a tremendous impact on their department. From increasing asset life cycles to reducing scrap material, the maintenance team continually works towards reducing waste.<\/p>\n

In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say that maintenance teams were working under the lean manufacturing philosophy long before the concept was named.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur management team embraced lean manufacturing during the recession,\u201d explained Ed, a maintenance and engineering manager for a multi-national manufacturer. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t a new idea for the maintenance crew. We were already looking for inefficiencies\u2014or waste. It\u2019s our job to eliminate as much inefficiency as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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