The lean manufacturing uses simple techniques and tools for the manufacturing. These lean manufacturing tools are very effective and efficient which bring small continuous improvements in the productivity. 5s is one of the simple and powerful tools used in the lean manufacturing and it is considered as the starting point of the lean manufacturing in any organization. The 5s tool of the lean manufacturing can be used to reduce defects, accidents and saving of time and money. These tools of the lean manufacturing can be used to identify the necessary and unnecessary things from the organizations. After identification all the unnecessary things can be removed from the organization.

There are different tools used in the lean manufacturing which can very useful and beneficial for the organizations. Value stream mapping, kanban, continuous flow, SMED, OEE and line balancing are some of the common tools used in the lean manufacturing. 7 wastes, error proofing, kaizen and root cause problem solving are also some important tools of the lean manufacturing. There are number of tools which should be used in the initiative of the lean manufacturing. These tools are very powerful workplace for organization and can make sense in any business. You should the root cause problem solving tool in every lean manufacturing implementation. There are different tools used in different organizations depending on the problems.

You can also use the cause and effect analysis, 8D method, 5 why analysis, CT trees and affinity diagrams. You can find out where the value is added and areas of non value added with the help of value stream mapping tool of the lean manufacturing. This tools depicts the flow of the product and information like inventory, distance and bottlenecks. There will be opportunities of the improvement after the completion of the value stream map. You can solve specific business opportunities with the help of lean manufacturing tools like SMED, OEE and takt time. You can reduce the machinery or process setup time with the SMED tool of the lean manufacturing and it can be very useful for the businesses which smaller order quantities and turnover.

You can find out the cause of failure of machine or products with the OEE lean manufacturing tool. Kaizen is also very powerful tool of lean manufacturing used for the improvement. It can be used to solve the business problem for the improvement of the productivity. You can solve different business issues by using different tools of the lean manufacturing and these tools will also have the financial impact on the organizations. You can easily be able to reduce costs and remove wastes from the organization if these tools of the lean manufacturing are implemented in the right way.