What is Lean Production? Meaning.
Lean Production is a manufacturing performance improvement
approach and philosophy that emphasizes the minimization of the amount of
all the resources (including time) used in the various activities of the enterprise.
It involves identifying and eliminating non-value-adding activities in design,
production, supply chain management, and dealing with the customers.
Lean producers employ teams of multi-skilled workers at all
levels of the organization and use highly flexible, increasingly automated
machines to produce volumes of products in potentially enormous variety. It
contains a set of principles and practices to reduce cost through the relentless
removal of Waste and through
the simplification of all manufacturing and support processes.
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Origin of the Word 'Lean'
The word 'lean' for all these concepts was first used by John Krafcik, a MIT-USA professor and researcher. He worked wi...
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Lean Business Processes
Jeff Hall in Management Services, Winter2006, Vol. 50 Issue 4, encourages the adoption of a lean approach to business pr...
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Summary of Lean Manufacturing and Maintenance. History, Tools, PROs and CONs Operational Excellence, Maximizing Efficiency Detailed presentation about Lean Production, including the interesting origins of Lean Production in Toyota Motor Compan...
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The 5 Main Steps of the Lean Manager Lean Management, Lean Production, Lean Six Sigma, 5S, Root Cause Analysis For a lean manager, performance and excellence are very important. These 5 steps characterize a lean manager:
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Lean Production for a Green Environment Lean Production, Lean Manufacturing, Green Manufacturing Presentation about lean manufacturing and its relation with sustainable business. The presentation includes the followin...
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Battle of Champions in Performance Improvement: Six Sigma versus Lean Performance Improvement Lean Six Sigma While both Six Sigma and Lean focus on waste reduction as a key aim (recognizing waste comes in many forms), this is the...
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Pull Production System Training Guide Pull Production, Kanban, Lean Interesting training guide from California Polytechnic State University on Pull Production, which I'd like to share with...
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See also: Just-in-time
| Total Productive Maintenance | 3rd Party Logistics (3PL)
| Vendor Managed Inventory
| Waste Management
| Bullwhip
Effect | Value
Engineering |
Scientific Management | Quick Response Manufacturing
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