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Understanding Lean Manufacturing Principles

Lean manufacturing is a business philosophy focused on eliminating waste and improving processes to enhance speed and reduce costs. It emphasizes flexibility, supply chain integration, and meeting global competition demands while ensuring high quality and accountability. The approach addresses various types of manufacturing systems and aims for sustainable improvements in response to rising input costs and customer expectations.

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Understanding Lean Manufacturing Principles

Lean manufacturing is a business philosophy focused on eliminating waste and improving processes to enhance speed and reduce costs. It emphasizes flexibility, supply chain integration, and meeting global competition demands while ensuring high quality and accountability. The approach addresses various types of manufacturing systems and aims for sustainable improvements in response to rising input costs and customer expectations.

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Lean Manufacturing

Dr. S. Vinodh,
Dept. of Production Engineering
Transition of Manufacturing paradigm
Craft
Manufacturing

Mass
Production

Lean
Manufacturing
Agile
Manufacturing
Types of manufacturing systems
Lean Thinking
Industry’s concerns
Rising Cost of Input
(Raw material, Energy)
Govt. Policies
Competency of employees

Global Competition

Accountability to shareholders &


financers

Above all SUSTAINABLE Improvement

5
Wastes in manufacturing processes
Main features of Lean manufacturing
• Fast Response (Flexibility)

• Supply Chain Integration

• Demand Management

• Broader jobs, highly skilled workers

• Excellent quality

• Reduced costs

• Ability to meet global market & competition


What is Lean?
• Lean is eliminating wasteful process steps and increasing the speed
with minimum capital.

• If we can reduce the process time, we will be able to bring out the
product as and when the customer needs it.
What is Lean and Lean
manufacturing?
• The term lean in the manufacturing context implies identification of
waste in all the processes involved.

• Lean manufacture is a business philosophy that continuously improves


all the processes involved in a manufacturing environment, irrespective
of what types of products are being manufactured.

• Lean manufacturing means increasing speed by reducing the process


time.

• It results in reduction of cost and faster action.


What is Lean and Lean
manufacturing?
• It can be related to automobile, aerospace, chemical engineering, or
any other type of manufacturing.

• Lean manufacture has a comprehensive set of elements, rules and


tools that focus on the elimination of waste and the creation of value.

• Lean manufacture also means speedy smooth and economical


manufacture.
Global Competition
• Become more demanding

• Best quality products

• Immediate supply

• Continuous reduction in price


What does the customer want?
• On time delivery

• Good quality

• Low price
What is Change?
• Sales forecast

• Product design/development

• Procurement of materials

• Inventory management

• Production

• Quality management
What is Waste?
Waste is anything that • High inventory • Unutilized machinery
• Scrap and equipment
consumes resources
• Rework • Overtime
and does not add value • Long lead time
• Repair
to the customer. • Low productivity • Delay
Globally, industries have • Downtime • Waiting for
inspection
identified the following • Poor yield
• Excess labor
forms of wastes: • Cycle time
inconsistency

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