Lean manufacturing and business performance: testing the S-curve theory

Effectiveness of Lean Manufacturing Technologies on Improving Business Performance: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industries

Indian manufacturing firms operating in rapidly changing and highly competitive market, over the last few decades, have embraced organization-wide transformation to achieve cultural and operational excellence. In recent years, numerous approaches have been proposed to improve business and manufacturing performance. Lean practices in particular, Total Productive Management (TPM) and Total Qualit...

Lean Manufacturing for High Performance

Assessment of lean manufacturing effect on business performance using Bayesian Belief Networks

The challenge of agility for adopting new business norms creates the need for measuring performance under changing conditions. This study aims to demonstrate the financial and non-financial consequences of implementing different combinations of lean techniques on the business performance. Bayesian Belief Network is used in studying the effects of factors under changing conditions. There are sev...

The Lean Manufacturing System the Search for Productivity Improvements and the Genesis of Lean Manufacturing

Over the past 10 years or so, lean manufacturing has been receiving an increasing amount of attention as one source for productivity improvements and cost reductions in manufacturing. Hailed by its proponents as a breakthrough means to analyze and improve production and the factory floor environment, lean manufacturing is a broad collection of principles and practices that can improve corporate...

Lean Manufacturing in the Factory

In this chapter, we describe in somewhat more depth the complexities of how lean production affects the manufacturing function. We look at both major process changes and enabling tools. We provide specific examples of lean implementation efforts and the savings that resulted. The companies that participated in this study demonstrated many lean pilot projects where savings were achieved in manuf...