LEAN IN PRODUCTION AND SERVICE The word term ‘’LEAN’’ was put together to describe and personalize Toyota’s business activity during the 1980’s by a research team headed by one Jim Womack‚ Ph.D.‚ at MIT’s international Motor vehicle programme. According to them‚ the concept of ‘LEAN’ was fathered by Taiichi Ohno of Toyota. Ohno developed a contrasting approach to the mass production methods of US car firms through necessity. Later‚ in 1996‚ Jim Womack’s team espoused the five lean principles
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The high performance model is seen by a number of practitioners and researchers as the latest attempt to construct an alternative to Taylorism and lean production. Advocates of the high performance workplace (HPW) argue that it places greater emphasis on skill acquisition‚ opportunities to utilise skills‚ employee involvement and influence than lean work places. Appelbaum et al. (2000)‚ in their US-based study‚ report evidence of a positive correlation between HPW and job satisfaction. Ramsay
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differences between lean and agile supply chain strategies? Similarities in Lean and Agile Supply Chain Strategies: In both approaches‚ lean practice has transformed the downstream stages of the supply chain scheduling‚ according to demand pull‚ and increasing agility mean that ultimately converting to agile as today’s requirement. Excessive stock in the supply chain and the practice of increasing batch size to create efficiencies are directly in conflict with responsiveness for both lean as well as
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THE LEAN HR/LEAN OD PARADIGM Definitions: Lean HR‚ Lean OD is about driving waste and duplication out of all HR and OD practices‚ processes and procedures – It is not a set of tools; it’s a paradigm rather then one single theory. A workplace culture; defined simplistically as how we do it around here and it will ultimately determine how far an organisation can go. A workplace culture can be formed in one of two ways. One is by piecemeal that is‚ bit by bit and usually in response to
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The Impact of Lean Implementation on Operational Performance: A Study of Composite Manufacturing Companies in Malaysia 1.0 BACKGROUND INFORMATION In 2012‚ the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 36 per cent of the worldwide market in value for composite production and 41 per cent in volume‚ according to Frederique Mutel‚ president and chief executive officer of the JEC Group‚ which is the world‟s largest composite industry organization‚ representing‚ promoting and expanding the industry
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Lean Glossary The following are key concepts associated with lean manufacturing. Click on a link to jump directly to the related definition. 5S Andon Bottleneck Analysis Continuous Flow Gemba (The Real Place) Heijunka (Level Scheduling) Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment) Jidoka (Autonomation) Just-In-Time (JIT) Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) Kanban (Pull System) KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Muda (Waste) Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) PDCA (Plan‚ Do‚ Check‚ Act) Poka-Yoke
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revolution‚ with its main characteristic of development of manufacturing management‚ swept across the world. Before the transition of production methods to new manufacturing processes‚ organisations faced problems relating to their effectiveness‚ speed of reaction‚ and flexibility‚ and these had formed a bottleneck restricting the development of enterprises. It was in 1950 that Toyota Motor Corporation first proposed Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing systems. Some years later‚ through its assembly with
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Claims require evidence‚ or else they are disregarded‚ but to what extent? Evidence is a fact or a piece of information that portrays the validity of a belief or proposition. For example‚ in science‚ you cannot claim a theory if it is not backed up with supportive evidence. However in matters like the reason of existence or religious beliefs‚ to what extent should evidence be provided? In Hitchens quote‚ he claims that if one makes a statement without providing evidences to back it up‚ the claim
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Measuring lean initiatives in health care services: Issues and findings‚ International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. Vol. 56‚ no. 1‚ 2007‚ pp. 7-24. Bhasin‚ S‚ & Burcher Laureani‚ A.‚ & Antony‚ J. (2010). Reducing employees’ turnover in transactional services. A Lean Six Sigma case study. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. Vol. 59‚ no. 7‚ pp. 688-700. MIT (2000) Moore‚ R. (2001‚ September). Comparing the major manufacturing improvement
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efficient. Lean production principles‚ pioneered by Toyota in the last half of the 20th century (Womack et al‚ 1990)‚ proved consistent results for the manufacturing companies that understood mass production strategy had become obsolete‚ after almost a century of dominance. Applicable successfully to the manufacturing industries‚ the lean philosophy will be analysed in the present synopsis through the perspective of services industry‚ usually dealing with intangibles. Lean Manufacturing In their
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