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Research Paper On Lean Manufacturing

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Lean Manufacturing
Avery Mitchell - R00096646

“It’s not necessary to change, survival is not mandatory” - Demming

Lean manufacturing a systematic approach to doing more with less. In other words, Lean, is a method of increasing the amount of a manufacturer’s output, while reducing the amount of resources put in. Lean is of great interest to manufacturers around the world. Companies of all sizes employ lean principles to employ large improvements to quality, marketability and customer service.

Lean is a production philosophy, a way of manufacturing a product using less resources. These principles allow a manufacturer to produce more with less by eliminating waste. Less time, inventory, capital, resources. This can be accomplished by highlighting …show more content…

Lean has been applied to many industries and have worked for factories of all sizes. Most factories have less than 250 employees.

Small batches are used to smooth production flow in the plant.

Total manufacturing effort is divided into value added activities and into non value added activities. Lean manufacturing aims to reduce the amount of non-value added activities. Optimising flow of production allows manufacturers to reduce the non-value added activites and increase the value adding activities.

History
The idea that reducing waste will save money is not a novel one, so lean manufacturing has actually been around for hundreds of years, for example the idea of an assembly line far predates the modern lean manufacturing era. However the modern iteration of lean manufacturing was developed in Japan by Toyoda, the founder of Toyota. The Toyota Production System was translated to English in 1975 and today is used as the starting point of lean manufacturing worldwide.

Many people believe that the Toyota production system was the beginning of Lean manufacturing. Translated to English in 1975. 1990 researchers learned that Toyota was the most efficient auomotive systems in the world. The machine that changed the world.

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