Applying LEAN on a farm
What is LEAN?
Dairy Lean is a management system that encourages continuous improvement in production efficiency, maximizing value creation and minimizing losses in every dairy production process.
How does it work ?
The process is in 3 steps : define the medium term goals and share them with associates and employees, organize the work by designing a person responsible per task, and finally have tool to communicate.
At the beginning it can require time investment and support to put in place the method, but afterwards it is a winning solution with time saving, reducing loss of information, of materials... At the end it allows to save money.
Several practical examples of LEAN practices :
- A board meeting to plan the weekly tasks and the objectives in order to evaluate them
- Task cards to describe steps to carry out a task. To standardize procedure between different workers.
- Instruction transmission board to avoid loss of information and communication problem, to put up in various places (milking parlor... nursery)
A final advice to implement lean method : identify only one or two top priorities and then define simple actions to implement in order to avoid dispersion.
Resilience for Dairy
Completed | 2021-2024
- Main funding source
- Horizon Europe (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, Slovenia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland