Lean Manufacturing Approach to Improve Speaker Manufacturing Process

Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process

Beyond Lean Manufacturing

Lean manufacturing (LM) evokes images of efficiency and minimizing unnecessary costs, an attractive value for many companies. But other companies are already as lean as they can be. Does LM have practical limits? This paper demonstrates how the Theory of Constraints (TOC) can take the business performance of those organizations currently pursuing lean to the next level.

Implementation of Lean Manufacturing

The Toyota Production System (TPS) is recognized by many to be the paragon for manufacturing system design. As such, it has been imitated by several companies inside their production plants in an effort to reap the manufacturing performance of Toyota. While imitation typically consists of "retrofitting" existing traditional plants with TPS, this thesis focuses on the actions required to design ...

Transformation from manufacturing process taxonomy to repair process taxonomy: a phenetic approach

The need of taxonomy is vital for knowledge sharing. This need has been portrayed by through-life engineering services/systems. This paper addresses this issue by repair process taxonomy development. Framework for repair process taxonomy was developed followed by its implementation. The importance of repair process taxonomy has been highlighted.

Lean manufacturing in continuous process industry: An empirical study

Lean manufacturing is a production strategy for organizational effectiveness focusing on waste reduction and improving productivity through application of various tools. This paper attempts to find out the reasons for sparse adoption of the concept in Indian manufacturing organisations through a cross-sectional survey study. The study highlights knowledge and understanding levels of Indian mana...