Lean Manufacturing: Selected Financial Performance Of Recognized Lean Manufacturers

Lean Manufacturing for High Performance

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 ...

The Selected Problems of Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Mexican SMEs

This paper presents the results of investigation of selected problems concerning Lean Manufacturing Implementation at SMEs in México. The analysis is a result of survey conducted in a sample of 24 manufacturing enterprises and it has been supported by some Mexican governmental information sources as well as additional studies which have been conducted before. The paper presents also a prelimina...

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.

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...