Lean Production: Re-Engineering Business, New business opportunities, Implications & Managerial Challenges (original) (raw)

A framework for managing change in lean manufacturing implementation

Abstract: Lean manufacturing is a proven approach for success in manufacturing industry. However, several organisations failed in their attempt to implement lean manufacturing system. The transition to lean manufacturing requires radical change which involves a total reshaping of purpose, system and culture of the organisation. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that could assist a manufacturing firm to implement lean manufacturing system successfully.

The Perception & Methodology of Lean Manufacturing: A Review paper 1

2015

— In the present global and competitive environment all organizations needs to perform efficiently with higher productivity. For performing efficiently with higher productivity there are so many tools and techniques. Lean is one of them it means using only what is necessary. Lean manufacturing techniques aim to significantly identify waste and eliminate it from the manufacturing processes. The paper is based on a discussion of literature review that shows how the completion of Lean could find importance to the organization processes and contribute for live in competitive environment by fast full benefits i.e. lead time, set-up time, reduction in inventory etc.

Importance of lean management in a contemporary enterprise – research results

Research in Logistics and Production

Lean Management is a management concept that creates a work culture at a company that makes all employees strive to continuously reduce costs, improve the quality and shorten delivery cycle to maximally meet customers' expectations and adapt to the environment by eliminating any waste identified and integrating the activities connected with the stream creating customer value. The article is aimed at presenting the results of research on the Lean Management concepts in a modern enterprise, conducted among the personnel of enterprises from Wielkopolska, Poland.

Critical factors of lean implementation in manufacturing environments

2008

Although Lean is certainly not a new concept, it is doubtless still relevant, being one of the most promoted and competitive management models in use today. Many companies have adopted the Lean Culture with success but a large number has failed when attempting this goal. As companies try to implement and apply Lean in response to competitive pressures, they often become one-dimensional in their approach. As the main purpose, this document seeks to study and analyse the underlying reasons surrounding companies’ failures in their Lean initiatives and how to implement them in a successful and sustainable way. This document is based on a thorough literature research concerning the success and failure of Lean implementations, enriched through an assortment of individual interviews with Lean experts, acting as a precursor for the development of a novel roadmap as a practical guide to open up a window of opportunity for managers, who want to become Lean in an effective and sustainable way.

Lean Implementation in Manufacturing Industries: Benefits and Shortcomings

International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Research, 2017

Manufacturing industries require continuous improvement process to perform better and withstand the intense global competition. Lean manufacturing or lean production is one of the most popular paradigms in process improvement. Lean philosophy is implemented by organizations worldwide but its implantation is snail-paced in India and needs to be augmented. Based on a systematic literature review and by performing a case study on lean implementation, this paper presents a detailed analysis of lean philosophy in manufacturing industries. Numerous benefits and shortcomings associated with lean implementation are explained in this paper. This paper presents the case studies on lean implementation performed by researchers over the years using various tools and methodologies for the review and understanding of most effective lean tools, benefits and shortcomings of lean production system (LPS). The authors have performed and presented a case study on lean implementation in a manufacturing industry to realize its benefits and shortcomings. The proposed work provides required preliminary information for lean implementation in manufacturing industries. Factors that hinder lean implementation are identified which must be sorted for successful implementation of lean principles in any manufacturing organization.

Basic Principles of Lean Production

Springer Texts in Business and Economics, 2012

Lean production as it appears in the literature and the various publications of consulting companies focuses on the avoidance of waste emphasizing that enterprises operate with inherent waste incorporated in their activities. This perception is not readily accepted among those with management responsibility in organizations that have seen growth, very good performance and remarkable profits for several consecutive years. So, why is there is so much noise about lean production and why should a successful company change their mode of operations in order to become lean? Is there perhaps a kind of fashion, a trend of the times that sometimes pushes enterprises without any real reason to follow that trend? This chapter addresses the issue.

A framework for organisational change management in lean manufacturing implementation

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2012

Lean manufacturing is a proven approach for success in manufacturing industry. However, several organisations failed in their attempt to implement lean manufacturing system. The transition to lean manufacturing requires radical change which involves a total reshaping of purpose, system and culture of the organisation. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that could assist a manufacturing firm to implement lean manufacturing system successfully. The insights of literature and multiple case studies are combined to develop the organisational change framework. Leadership and direction, and change agent system found to be the most critical factors in managing change to lean manufacturing. Furthermore, the smooth transition also requires effective communication, workers' empowerment and lean review system. Failure in recognising the required organisational change factors to be adapted in lean transition may hinder the long-term benefits of the company.

Standardizing the Concept of Lean: A Literature Review

2018

In modern day‟s global competition, companies adopting lean management to maximize productivity and quality with lower cost and time spent. But the success rate of lean implementation is far below than assumed. The authors noticed that there is a scope to research onunderstanding lean by definitions. Fundamentally, the term “Lean”, mostly representing the Toyota production system has been being defined by many authors in many forms. But still the uniformity and clarity is not gained to come to a conclusion with consensus. Hence thispaper aims to eliminate variability in defining lean bycreatinga versatile, easily understandable and acceptable meaningby reviewing contemporary literature and interviewing industry experts.

Management of change, lean practice and organisational performance of private companies in Malaysia

2015

Organizations can gain competitive advantage from lean production practices. Such practices enable the organization to get superior performance through reduction of wastes and other related costs (Ohno, 2008).Industries are nowadays facing a problem of broad production in their organizations thus resulting to lots of wastage. This has seen many companies experience problems of waste along the supply chain and the liability to make the right products for customer satisfaction.Procurement managers are bound to embrace the essence of adopting lean production which is a business initiative to reduce waste in manufacture production.To this extent therefore, this initiative leverage companies to achieve long term competitive advantages by putting in place the proper production systems and technologies particularly with regard to product quality, shortening product design time, the reducing of wastage improving end customer satisfaction and inventory management (Womack &Jones). Organizatio...

Lean Manufacturing: a concept towards a sustainable management

Communications in Applied Sciences, 2014

In this paper, we will analyze the concept of lean manufacturing, starting from the example illustrated by TPS (Toyota Production System) which is renowned for its focus on the reduction of the original Toyota seven waists in order to improve overall customer value, in spite of the existence of varying perspectives on how this is best achieved. The steady growth of Toyota, from a small company to the world's largest automaker (Bailey, 2008) has focused its attention on how it has achieved this success. It is a starting template that was also developed by other automotive makers, and not only. We will also identify the main elements of lean philosophy and propose a typology of the fundamental concepts of lean, using data analysis from research findings across studies on lean manufacturing and lean production published in the past two decades.