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LEAN MANUFACTURING

What is Lean Manufacturing?

Lean as a systematic approach to identify and eliminate waste through continuous improvement, flowing the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of perfection (Womack at.al. 1990)

Who introduced Lean Manufacturing? When?

Womack at.al. 1990

What are the characteristics of Lean Manufacturing Organization?

1. Waste Reduction

2. Reduction in Requirements

3. Continuous Improvements

4. Improvement in First-time product quality 

5. Enhanced business process value

6. Better communication reliability

7. Inventory Management

8. Lead time reduction

Why become Lean?

The customer-driven and highly competitive market have rendered the old-fashioned managerial style an inadequate tool to cope with these challenges. These factors present a big challenge to companies to look for new tools to continue moving up the ladder in a global, competitive, growing market environment. Some factors that are responsible for the lean environment are as follows:

1. Reduce Lead time

2. Speed time - to- markets

3. Reduction in operations costs

4. Exceed customer expectations

5. Manage the global enterprise

6. Streamline outsourcing processes

7. Improve Business performance visibility

8. Utilize energy equipment and people in the most protective ways

What are the Lean tools?

1. Value Stream Mapping

2. Lean Concurrent Manufacturing

3. Cellular Manufacturing

4. Just In Time

5. Lean supply chain

6. Lean Accounting

7. Single Minute Exchange of dies

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