The Lean Machine™ – Excellence Through Integration

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The Lean Machine ™ is software that allows a company to execute its plans and strategies by stabilizing processes and effectively managing improvements, while meeting ISO and FDA requirements.

Do your business systems work together?

This is accomplished by improving the speed and effectiveness of your company’s continuous improvement efforts by integrating our quality and material management modules into an effective management tool that also helps individual employees do their jobs.

Deploying The Lean Machine ™ will:

Improve your ability to manage change. Managers can more easily tap into the problem solving potential of their employees without loosing control of the process of change.
Provide a structure that supports execution. Structure isn’t just about efficiency. A good structure enhances accountability, coordination, and communication. Plus, it ensures that decisions are being made as close to the action as possible. These are all key components of getting things done.
Allow employee involvement in decisions. Today’s world is too complex for leaders to go it alone. Their most effective role is to mentor employees in how to discover the answers the company needs, while maintaining approval control of the proposed change.
Improve company-wide coordination and cooperation. When your strategic plans, written procedures, projects, corrective action plans, etc are all integrated in one application, managers have the ability to use this information to support better execution.

Of course The Lean Machine will also speed up your ISO 9001/13485 certification, but that’s the easy part. Using your quality system as a proactive management tool is where most companies find the real challenge to be. If you are simply looking for document management software, or ISO 9001 Software, The Lean Machine will meet your initial needs and then allow you to integrate other quality improvement and lean manufacturing solutions when you are ready to expand the scope of your process improvement efforts.

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From all the studies done on Toyota Motor Corporation, some of the latest are discovering that “Lean” is a collection of tools that came about from what is really making Toyota successful: Kata. Originally, Kata was a Japanese term used to describe a prearranged set of martial art techniques designed by a master to pass his knowledge down through many generations. Today, this term can mean “routine,” although one that is regularly practiced so as to be second nature. Mike Rother has revealed the source of Toyota’s success, and recent problems, in his book, “Toyota Kata.”

For six decades Toyota has used the principle of Kata by teaching a habit of single variable rapid PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) improvement cycles to all it’s employees. It was this problem solving methodology that invented the Lean techniques we are all trying to copy today. The latest thinking is that instead of copying Toyota’s tools, managers should try to manage their employees in a way that will also unlock the talent and ingenuity of their workforce. Toyota invented Lean Manufacturing by tapping into their workforce, which is pretty strong evidence that this is a viable management strategy. Toyota, by it’s own admission, recently strayed from this management process, which resulted in the accelerator issues we have all heard about (even more evidence).

The Lean Machine is designed to support this continuous improvement methodology used by Toyota, even within a small company environment where resources are often limited. By streamlining and integrating all the individual tasks that usually take so much time in most quality systems, The Lean Machine will allow the quality system to finally act like a management system.

The Lean Machine™ provides solutions for:

Third party validation is also available for medical device or other companies who are required to use validated software to meet FDA, ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 requirements. We also love it when our customers give us suggestions for future updates so we can make sure their quality management software is acting like the management tool it is supposed to be.

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Whether your issues are supplier quality, internal audits, or lean manufacturing, having modules for all your needs in one integrated quality management software package becomes a significant strategic advantage. We also provide you with world class support and updates to ensure The Lean Machine is working to support your quality improvement and compliance management efforts as your business systems evolve.

Benefits of an intergrated 21 CFR Part 11 compliant Quality Management Software System

Save countless hours by not moving paper, looking for paper, printing paper, signing paper, organizing paper, hole punching paper, finding obsolete paper, etc.
Save countless hours by using the Employee Dashboard to focus on the tasks you need to accomplish.
Avoid the problems that occur when these tasks get perpetually postponed because they are forgotten, or lost.
Save countless hours trying to develop isolated components of your quality systems that can’t exchange information.
Make sound decisions from your quality data that’s easy to capture and report on.
Save even more time not duplicating data entry as all the module are integrated to maximize the use of data from other modules.

Using quality management software for your process improvement efforts can accelerate your organizations progress towards a lean manufacturing environment by coordinating areas such as supplier quality, document management, and process improvement. Quality control and risk management are achieved under one quality management system that eliminates the wasted efforts of duplicate data entry or trying to manually integrate separate databases or spreadsheets.

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The Lean Machine™ – Excellence Through Integration