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How many times have we looked for Lean manufacturing assessment tools? For my part, often by spending a lot of time on Google or by asking my fellow consultants. With not always satisfactory results.

Many models of Lean Manufacturing coexist as we have seen in our article « 2, 5, 7 or 14 Lean principes ? » and each one has its own merits.

Differences between design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA)

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is a design method to reduce the complexity of manufacturing operations and the overall cost of production including the cost of raw materials.

Design for Assembly (DFA) is a design method to facilitate or reduce the assembly operations of parts or components of a product.

If there is one function whose performance is difficult to measure, it is Research and Development. Similarly, to set up processes, standards and rules to improve this performance.

Financiers consider employees as expenses and not investments. Many managers prefer to invest in machines or IT systems rather than people.

But it's a mistake. A financial mistake. A managerial mistake.

At first glance, the answer to this question is extremely simple: an organisational performance evaluation consists of evaluating an organisation.

But the scope of the organisation is so vast (strategy, governance, functions, leadership, business processes, tools and information systems...), and the objective of the evaluation is so varied that no two diagnoses are the same.

In the modern business world, the importance of performing the right operational excellence assessment at exactly the right time in an organisation's life cannot be overstated enough. Oftentimes, these assessments come out of a need to obtain an in-depth, unbiased overview of a business' current capabilities. This usually comes about after managers identify certain operational issues that need to be addressed. Only by gaining the clearest possible picture of where you stand will you have a chance to identify what isn't working and, hopefully, what steps need to be taken to adequately correct those issues.

This page gives a few DILO Excel templates and PowerPoint templates. Each template is made to be used according to the DILO methodology and tools page and the DILO How -To practical guide page.

This page is a practical guide to perform a DILO. It is a follow up of the DILO methodology and tools page describing what is a DILO, its objectives and the general methodology. The templates are in the DILO templates page.

Context: as a manager, you want to improve your organisation and you wonder whether you should start by an assessment of the current state

What is a DILO?