INTRODUCTION Lean manufacturing‚ lean enterprise‚ or lean production‚ often simply‚ "Lean"‚ is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful‚ and thus a target for elimination. Working from the perspective of the customer who consumes a product or service‚ "value" is defined as any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for. Essentially‚ lean is centered on preserving
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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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focuses on LEAN productions‚ which aims at elimination of wastes there by reducing the environmental degradation. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Lean production system 3. Basic elements of lean manufacturing 4. Overview of lean production system 5. Lean techniques 6. Characteristics of lean 7. Benefits of implementing lean 8. Case Study 9. Conclusion 10. References 1. INTRODUCTION Lean production
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Lean Manufacturing is a very popular and successful strategy‚ which many manufacturing companies have adopted over the past 60 years. Mone Consulting Firm has been referring this method for more than 20 years at a high success rate of 99%. If implemented effectively “going lean” for Classic Cable Company will have a positive impact throughout the entire enterprise‚ by introducing attainable goals. The goals of lean manufacturing will achieve: a balanced rapid flow‚ eliminate waste and disruptions
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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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What trade-offs are involved in shifting from a traditional operations system to a lean system for: a. A manufacturing firm? A lean system is basically quality vs. quantity. Producing quality in the lean system eliminates waste. For instance‚ a lean system can reduce inventory‚ waiting time‚ excessive transportation‚ as well as defects in products and services. “The key considerations are the time and cost requirements for successful conversion‚ which can be substantial” (Stevenson‚ 2010‚ p.
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to the emergence of the Lean Manufacturing production system‚ which focuses mainly on the elimination of waste with the purpose of achieving more with less (Ballard‚ 2003). It has been widely acknowledged that to become a lean organization there is a need to introduce a new management approach of a strategic‚ managerial‚ structural‚ organisational and operational nature. Firstly‚ from a strategic perspective‚ without fully understanding the scope and the value of lean initiatives‚ senior management
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Lean implementation The lean implementation described in the book “Journey to lean”‚ written by Drew‚ McCallum Roggenhoffer describes lean‚ the set of principles‚ practices‚ tools and techniques to address the root causes of the operational under performance. Lean is a systematic approach of eliminating the sources of loss from entire value stream in order to gap between actual performance and the requirement of stakeholders. They authors describes the three kinds of losses as variability‚ inflexibility
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more 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
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Briana McLaughlin Operations Management May 25th‚ 2014 Lean Reflection Throughout our operations management class we have practiced many simulations and experienced several observations on lean manufacturing. Although there are many components of lean manufacturing‚ I have highlighted some of the key points I have absorbed from the class thus far. Lean manufacturing concepts I have learned the most from include the three M’s‚ the five S’s‚ flexible resources‚ total quality management‚ and
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