After having successfully implemented Lean in Tenneco's Clean Air division, Tenneco Europe decided to expand Lean to its other divisions - Ride Performance including Aftermarket in 2011. These divisions were able to fully benefit from the best practices developed over the last 10 years.The implementation was articulated around two major axes: This paper focuses on Tenneco's Ride Performance division and is split into two parts.Part 1 explains: Part 2 illustrates: The first group of projects includes an example of the complex processes to prepare, build, pack and invoice a prototype. This involves all the key functions of an organization. The different steps of the workshop are shown.For the second group of projects (small projects) an overview shows the benefits in terms of: An example illustrates how a change agent project is treated.Finally, three years of lean implementation are reviewed. The outcome is very encouraging: ‘Soft-side’ improvements have been met such as:


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    Title :

    Implementation of Lean Transactional in Tenneco's Ride Performance Europe Division - Review after Three Years of Implementation


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2014 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2014



    Publication date :

    2014-04-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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