Lean manufacturing applied to a wiring production process

Beyond manufacturing: The evolution of lean production 95 Beyond manufacturing: The evolution of lean production

Lean principles were originally developed in industrial operations as a set of tools and practices that managers and workers could use to eliminate waste and inefficiency from production systems—reducing costs, improving quality and reliability, and speeding up cycle times. Toyota Motor pioneered lean practices, and much of their allure today stems from the fact that the phenomenal performance ...

Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process

A Process Control Methodology Applied to Manufacturing GaAs MMIC ’ s

A methodology for guiding process-driven manufacturing organizations in instituting process control on a facility-wide basis is proposed. The methodology begins with a definition of the customer’s expectations and of the manufacturing process used to meet these expectations. The output, of a given process or subprocess must reach four progressive levels of control. When the output can be reliab...

Optimal manufacturing-remanufacturing policies in a lean production environment

This study analyses a production-management model that considers the possibility of implementing a reverse-logistics system for remanufacturing end-of-life products in a lean production environment (as opposed to models that use EOQ approaches). Decision variables are identified (including manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities and return rates and use rates for end-oflife products) and o...

A Novel Optimization Approach Applied to Multi-Pass Turning Process

Optimization of turning process is a non-linear optimization with constrains and it is difficult for the conventional optimization algorithms to solve this problem. The purpose of present study is to demonstrate the potential of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for optimization of multipass turning process. This algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and coloni...