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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 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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    com/1741-038X.htm JMTM 17‚4 Critical success factors for lean implementation within SMEs Pius Achanga‚ Esam Shehab‚ Rajkumar Roy and Geoff Nelder Department of Enterprise Integration‚ School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science‚ Centre for Decision Engineering‚ Cranfield University‚ Cranfield‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The aim of this research paper is to present the critical factors that constitute a successful implementation of lean manufacturing within manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach

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    1.0 Introduction Lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste from all aspects of an organization’s operations‚ where waste is viewed as any use or loss of resources that does not lead directly to creating the product or service a customer wants when they want it. In many industrial processes‚ such non-value added activity can comprise more than 90 percent of a factory’s total activity Lean manufacturing or lean production are reasonably new terms that can be traced to Jim Womack‚ Daniel

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    business and manufacturing community to associate JIT with Lean operations. According to “Reference for Business” Lean methodology is Westernized version of Japanese Just-In-Time system‚ where both of these systems share mostly the same characteristics and goals‚ and often used interchangeably. Whereas there are similarities between these two methodologies‚ there are also principal differences between them. It should be noted that these two systems‚ can also be perfectly used together‚ and firms can achieve

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    References: Kollberg‚ B. Dahlgaard‚ J. J. and Brehmer‚ P. (2006). 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

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    Lean Management When managing the operation in a skilled industry‚ the business leaders must understand two main goals in creating a successful business - to increase profit and minimize or maintain the costs involved. Targeting these two goals has been a mystery for the entrepreneurs‚ especially with the increasing level of competition. The lean operation offers new perspectives on operation and it will achieve a balanced‚ smooth flow of operations. With lean operation and Just-in-time philosophy

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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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    Tasks and answers Task 1: To what extent could or should Deane expect to apply the philosophies and techniques of JIT/Lean to the running of a staircase cell? Staircases Production Company (SPC) is a small‚ successful‚ privately owned timber and building materials company based in a small city in the UK. The company offers a wide variety of timber products‚ from regular doors‚ windows and staircases to special products such as non-standard sections or special profiles (i.e. old designs of skirting

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    why lean Lean Manufacturing is not especially new. It is derived from the Toyota Production System or Just in Time Production‚ Henry Ford and other predecessors. The lineage of Lean manufacturing and Just In Time (JIT) Production goes back to Eli Whitney and the concept of interchangeable part in the 1850’s. It was finally when Taichii Ohno and Shigeo Shingo introduced Toyota Production System which in true sense talked about lean manufacturing. Todd(2000) defines lean production as “initiative

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