Fleet Management Lean 5-S Audit Program Update

Have you noticed a change in the shops around Team Fishel? Do they seem more organized and efficient? It is not your imagination. What you have experienced is the practice of LEAN. What is LEAN? LEAN is a management style that maximizes Customer value by attacking waste.

The shops have been using two LEAN tools, 5-S Audit and Standard Work, to improve customer value and meet Fishel's goal of improving productivity by 10%. 5-S is a method of visual organization focused on maximizing productivity and fixing quality and safety issues efficiently.

Standard Work is a standardized process to ensure work is done correctly and in an efficient manner every time.

The shops have experienced productivity gains of 20% since the implementation of LEAN, equating to a savings of $354,000 or 13,000 man-hours per year. Excess inventory in the amount of $200,000 has also been eliminated through LEAN. LEAN will make Team Fishel more profitable and competitive by reducing our equipment costs.

LEAN is one tool we all can use to achieve better productivity. A companywide productivity increase of 10% is the same as adding $4 million in additional resources cost free. Just imagine what this could do for Team Fishel and its Customers! To find out more about LEAN, feel free to contact your Fleet Manager or Regional Operating Vice President.