Source:Textile Review
Lean manufacturing was initially implemented inautomobile industries only but later on its phenomenon success made otherindustries to go for implementing the same. It covers a wide variety of operations forreducing waste, increasing productivity and cutting cost. The emphasis in leanmanufacturing is utilization of lesser resources to produce the same goods.Lean system basically aims at half the hours of engineering effort, half theproduct development time, half the investment in machinery, half the hours ofhuman effort in the factory, half the factory space for the same output, halfthe defects in the finished product, increased capacity or throughput.
Over the past two decades, lean manufacturing has generateda greater attention and enthusiasm among the manufacturers, employees andcustomers. It is not something brand new but is derived from Japanese ToyotaProduction System (TPS). The tremendous success of TPS which basically works onwaste reduction made a huge impact allover the world. Lean manufacturing wasinitially implemented in automobile industries only but later on its phenomenonsuccess made other industries to go for implementing the same. It covers a widevariety of operations for reducing waste, increasing productivity and cuttingcost. The emphasis in lean manufacturing is utilization of lesser resources toproduce the same goods. Lean system basically aims at half the hours ofengineering effort, half the product development time, half the investment inmachinery, half the hours of human effort in the factory, half the factoryspace for the same output, half the defects in the finished product, increasedcapacity or throughput. Reduced inventories: Raw, WIP (Work In Progress) and FG(Finished Goods), smaller lot sizes, reduced lead times, improved participationand morale of employees.
Thilak Vadicherla
Originallypublished in &sec=article&uinfo=<%=server.URLEncode(2572)%>">Textile Review: April 2010
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