Topic 5 Organizational Assessment Models LESAT and Shingo Prize

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Lean Enterprise Self-assessment Tool for Evaluating Workstation Designs
Manufacturing companies need flexibility and efficiency to ensure high volumes of production and lower cost. This helps companies to survive in the highly competitive industry. Workstations are very important in manufacturing and their design needs to ensure that production takes minimal time. The design should ensure that the company achieves automation and optimization, saves space and uses less inventory. LESAT (lean enterprise self-assessment tool) has inherent lean and ergonomic principles which can be applied in designing workstations for assembly lines.
A workstation design embodies placement of tools, materials, and equipment. Operator movements are also routed to eliminate unnecessary movements. Lean workstations focus on the operator by providing safety and workstation ergonomics. Tools, parts, and materials need to be placed strategically for easy access to the operator (Gonçalves and Konstantinos 387). The lean assessment Tool helps to evaluate the performance of a workstation and give an insight on how the company is moving along its lean journey.
The hierarchy of workstation needs demands that lower needs should be satisfied for higher levels to be reached. According to Gonçalves and Konstantinos (388), prioritization is needed to achieve full performance in workstations.

Functionally is the first need which attends to safety and physical needs. This is followed by effectiveness which realizes relationship and collaboration needs. Efficiency is the value added by workers in the facility. The satisfaction level is attained when organizational goals are met which subsequently leads to excellence.
Lean Assessment Tool has been tipped as the best approach to the evaluation of workstation designs in assembly designs. The adoption process demands a proper definition of workstation requirements. These requirements are health and safety, order, cleanliness, flexibility, quality, inventory logistics and visual management. A methodology is needed to assess each requirement. For practicality, the assessment needs to be converted into results. Validation and final adjustment are also needed after the adoption of LESAT.
The tool has been successfully applied and validated in workstation design for a multinational automotive company in the UK. According to Gonçalves and Konstantinos (390), its adoption and validation into the assembly line were based on measurements, interface, content, and construction. The Lean Assessment Tool is expected to offer feedback on workstation efficiency and act as a guide for improvements.

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Gonçalves, Micael Teixeira, and Konstantinos Salonitis. “Lean assessment tool for workstation design of assembly lines.” Procedia CIRP 60 (2017): 386-391.