With the ongoing global pressure of cost cutting and quality focus, many companies have been implementing “lean manufacturing” concepts to survive in this competitive marketplace. “Lean” concepts have found their place in manufacturing and service industries; an important key to eliminating waste and delivering value to the customers. Thus, it is imperative that engineering management graduates...

Is your company lean? It can be, with the help of MSU’s Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management. Faculty in the Institute have been looking in depth at lean processes and how they can be implemented in Mississippi furniture and supplying companies. A series of studies that relate specifi cally to the development and use of lean manufacturing techniques in furniture and wood componen...

The application of lean manufacturing has been successfully proved that can reduce the work in process, increase service level and shorten cycle time simultaneously. Many guidelines are proposed for traditional production systems to achieving lean manufacturing. However, there is no evidence of work applying lean manufacturing principles to fishing net production. This research follows some gui...

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...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe characteristics agile manufacturing and analyse the needs benefits under conditions uncertainty market turbulence. It also describes four main changes in production environment which were implemented thanks methods, compares lean manufacturing, while describing their intersections differences achieving set goals. conclusion summarises advantages ide...

The global development of the world has an adverse affect on the natural environment, such as global warming, is continuing to mount. Green manufacturing systems that focus on minimizing environmental impact of manufacturing processes and products are ever more important to sustain our future. Green manufacturing systems are slow to gain acceptance as manufacturers are focusing more on implemen...

This paper presents a planning system for Lean Manufacturing and is applicable to a variety of manual and automated manufacturing operations. By defining a standard set of Lean Manufacturing metrics, our research sets up a framework for performance measurement and benchmarking. A financial Cost of Waste measure is developed from data on current performance levels, and the planning framework dev...

Lean Manufacturing system has been acknowledged by Indian industry as a capable system in enhancing organisational performance by focusing on elimination of waste from the manufacturing system and thus improving effectiveness of the organisation. But still in most of Indian industries it is currently used as improvement tool instead of adopting this concept as a culture. Though if used on full ...

A concept of Lean can be seen as a loosely connected set of potentially competing principles whose goal is cost reduction by the elimination of waste, and organise the possible effort to utilise waste of all kinds in a productive way. The avoidance and then lateral removal of waste has a long history, and as such this history forms much of the basis of the philosophy now known as "Lean". Many o...

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...