Capture the Value of Lean Manufacturing

Business success or failure is driven by an organization's response to the demands and capabilities of customers, internal processes and suppliers. For manufacturing companies, identifying and optimizing the entire value stream is critical to delivering the value demanded by customers today. iGrafx provides companies with Lean Manufacturing solutions they need to visualize, understand and improve manufacturing processes to maximize customer value.

Keeping up with the pace of business

The rapid pace of today's environment places ever increasing pressures on manufacturing companies to provide higher quality products at lower costs in shorter cycle times. To respond to these demands, corporations are looking for solutions that help them meet these objectives and give them the tools to continually improve operations.

Lean manufacturing has proven itself to be a powerful tool in helping companies adapt to the demands of the rapid economy. Lean manufacturing techniques have been successfully applied by leading companies in all types of industries. From its origins in Japan's automotive manufacturing sector, the lean methodology has been a significant contributor to helping companies reduce lead times, eliminate waste, reduce inventories, improve quality, increase capacity in existing facilities, reduce total cost and deliver increased value to customers.

iGrafx and Lean Manufacturing

By combining the power of visualization, modeling and process management, iGrafx enables companies to improve their Lean ROI by facilitating the creation of critical diagrams and value stream maps, performing what-if analysis of process diagrams and perpetually tracking, managing and communicating Lean process knowledge.

We have leveraged more than 15 years experience helping companies to improve manufacturing and business processes and worked with leading consultants to deliver powerful functionality for the Lean professional. As a practitioner, iGrafx enables you to:

• Drive down the cost and duration of projects through efficiencies gained only by automation
• Improve communication and awareness through easy to understand diagrams based on accepted Lean standards
• Facilitate communication and preserve historical knowledge with centralized knowledge management and control
• Improve awareness of project details and benefits through dynamic links between Lean tools
• Gain an accurate understanding of changes prior to implementation through what-if analysis
• Leverage the power of Lean techniques and the Six Sigma methodology in a single, integrated solution

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