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LeanDNA® is comprised of four major feature sets.  The first set provides Performance Management tools to link operational effectiveness with financial performance.  The second feature set includes Strategy Deployment and Business Intelligence (BI) tools to help manufacturers analyze customer demand and their production capabilities and constraints.  The third feature set enables manufacturers to design Lean manufacturing systems.  The fourth and final feature set assists manufacturers with the day-to-day execution of their Lean operation.  

Cloud Platform for Lean Manufacturing Management

Streamline Strategy Japan offers a suite of software and services called LeanDNA® which is deployed under a Software-as-a-Service model to support the analysis, design, and day-to-day execution of Lean Manufacturing Operations. LeanDNA was built by recognized Lean manufacturing experts, who won the prestigious Shingo Prize in 2001 for their development work in the area of Lean software systems, LeanDNA provides on-demand software to support the physical and cultural change required to achieve operational excellence. LeanDNA is based on the operational DNA of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and our successful application of TPS methodologies in over 15 countries.

LeanDNA helps companies improve manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness by providing powerful tools to measure, monitor and manage Lean operations. The product provides a best-practices platform for Lean Manufacturing Execution and automates the tasks traditionally performed through spreadsheets or other manual systems.

Lean Business Intelligence™

• Real-time Performance Dashboards and Metric Reporting
• Management and distribution of reports, analysis, and dashboards
• Inventory Analytics
• OEE Calculation and Reporting
• Downtime Tracking and Pareto Analysis
• Performance Benchmarking
• Improved sharing of information and collaboration
• Embedded workflow to allow for intelligence BI processes, and integration with external business processes
• Extensive customization capabilities using APIs, web services, modification of templates, or business rules

Lean Deployment

• Collaborative Web Environment for Managing Lean Manufacturing Initiatives
• Best Practices Templates for Lean Initiatives and Events
• Manage tasks and issues associated with each Lean Initiative
• Notification and alerts of Lean Initiative status.
• What-if Analysis and Future Performance Projections
• Web-based project management for tracking and visualizing each activity

Kanban Management & Execution

• Automatic calculation of Kanban levels
• Low-cost and quick-to-deploy solution for Kanban Management
• Monitor inventory levels, kanban loops, and supermarkets to minimize carrying costs, and enable 100% customer order fulfillment
• Automate routine Kanban Management tasks
• Multi-mode Configuration for Production Kanban, Withdrawal Kanban, Supplier Kanban, and 2-Bin
• Pull Replenishment through Min-Max
• Real-time Alerts and Notification of exceptions

Lean Manufacturing Scheduling & Execution

• Pull-based Scheduling and Heijunka
• Adaptive Scheduling Based on Shop Floor Scanning
• Build-to-Replenishment (BTR) Management & Execution
• Integrated Materials Reporting with Pull System Execution

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