Secora Lean Implementation Methodology
SLIM makes your business more effective and cost efficient.
SLIM provides an effective way to reduce operational waste, save time and costs and utilize valuable resources to capacity.

SLIM methodology addresses the following types of waste:
  • Transportation
  • Inventory
  • Motion
  • Waiting (Time in queue)
  • Overproduction
  • Overprocessing
  • Defects (Scrap, rework and inspection)
  • Lost opportunity
SLIM enterprise extends this concept through the entire value stream or supply chain: A highly optimized factory cannot achieve its full potential if it has to work with non-SLIM customers, suppliers, subcontractors, administration and infrastructure.

Secora will teach employees and managers alike to identify waste and non value added activities.  The Secora SLIM methodologies include traditional tools such as Value Stream Mapping which make waste visible to all process stakeholders, highlighting problems such as bottlenecks, inventories and hidden factories.

Whether in an industrial or transactional environment, Secora consultants will get their hands dirty working with the people who actually do the job. Only this way can the real facts be gathered and the correct improvement steps implemented.  Through multi-level practical involvement, Secora enables and encourages employees to continuously improve their business processes.

Case Study - Laser Welding (Automotive)

A Tier 1 European automotive supplier had major issues on a newly launched product: Failure to meet customer volume requirements; Failure to meet customer quality requirements; Massive cost overrun. Using the SLIM (Lean) Methodology Secora helped the client to solve its most prominent operational effectiveness issues and reduce internal manufacturing cost to below the original target costing, without capital investment or design change.
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Essential Elements of a Good Project Charter

Sean Rast writes for iSixSigma magazine about the project charter. This article breaks the project charter into it's key components and offers tips for documenting project parameters effectively.
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Case Study - Automotive Industry

The project’s purpose was to reduce rail car demurrage for the client’s company. Rail cars are used to move material (parts) from suppliers to the automotive assembly plant and supporting facilities. Demurrages are tariff charges assessed for detaining freight cars beyond their specified time limit. Demurrage charges are billed to the assembly plant from the railroad when rail cars are held at the assembly plant or supporting facilities beyond the contracted amount of time.
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