Lean
Our Lean work permeates everything we do. Together with our digital process control and our quality and improvement systems, our Lean strategy gives us both efficiency in what we do and the flexibility required for continuous improvement.
In 2022, Orbit One was named winner of the Swedish Lean Award, a highlight of a journey that started many years earlier. What is the key to succeeding with Lean? Here are four tips on factors that have laid the foundation for Sweden’s most efficient Lean manufacturing.
Four steps to succeeding with Lean
Make the principles your own
Adapt the fourteen principles of Lean to your own business, and make them your own principles. There are many Lean tools, but which ones are important for you? How should you apply them to your own operations? Summarise the aspects of Lean that are most relevant to your business, and train your entire workforce in the principles you have adopted.
Build inspirational leadership
Leadership and values are the key to being able to implement and establish Lean as part of your corporate culture. The daily leadership must inspire, push and engage your employees, and they must feel involved and know that they are important and can impart influence and make a difference.
Create a permissive culture
In order to develop, you need to challenge yourselves, and to do this you need to build a permissive culture that allows your staff to try new approaches, challenge traditional ways of thinking and think outside the box. It is okay to fail now and again, as mistakes are part of how we continue to learn, develop and constantly improve.
Understand the needs of your customers
A successful approach to Lean must also include an understanding of your customers’ needs. Through mutual understanding and close collaboration, you will be able to develop your Lean methodology and services to create secure, seamless and optimal value chains.
Your product
Is our mission
Always 100% focus on your products. This is the principle we live by. This is the way we think. Orbit One takes long-term, total responsibility for all our customers, be they large or small. We constantly ask ourselves: How can we do this even better, more efficiently and more sustainably? How can we provide more value for the customer? We do not have any products of our own that compete for our time and attention, only your products, and our goal is clear: to be number one in value-adding contract manufacturing!
The customer in focus
Always 100% focus on your products. This is the principle we live by. This is the way we think. We do not have any products of our own that compete for our time and attention, only your products, and our goal is clear: to be number one in value-adding contract manufacturing!
Total solutions
Orbit One takes long-term, total responsibility for all our customers, be they large or small. We constantly ask ourselves: How can we do this even better, more efficiently and more sustainably? How can we provide more value for the customer?
Experience
Orbit One is one of Scandinavia’s leading and most experienced manufacturers of electronics and electromechanics. Together with the product owner, Orbit One produces tailor-made, optimised and sustainable solutions for the entire value chain.
