1.1. Introduction Manufacturing and assembly operations are continually striving to increase productivity and output of their operations. The goal is to satisfy the customer with the exact product, quality, quantity, and price in the shortest amount of time. “In the last decades, competitive pressures have been pushing companies towards cost reduction and performance improvement of operations to provide high quality products to very demanding markets.” (1) In this era, information and technology
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1.0 INTRODUCTION The requirement is to review a current article or situation relating to lean manufacturing or Toyota production system. 1.1 PURPOSE The purpose of this assignment will provide an opportunity to evaluate the content and quality of an article or situation. 1.2 DEFINITIONS Andon A visual management tool that highlights the status of operations in an area at a single glance and that signals whenever an abnormality occurs. An andon, which is the Japanese term for “lamp,” can
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facilities. Wastes should be eliminated to achieve better connectivity between operations. It improves response time to customer demand, reduces inventories, reduces working capital requirements, improves productivity. It is executed by using various lean tools such as 5S, Value Stream Mapping(VSM), Kanban and Kaizen.This paper mainly uses Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and layout changes to solve
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11-32 – Online ISSN: 2013-0953 Print ISSN: 2013-8423 A case study of lean, sustainable manufacturing Geoff Miller1, Janice Pawloski2, Charles Standridge 3 1 Grand Rapids Chair Company (USA); 2, 3 School of Engineering, Grand Valley State University (USA) geoff@grandrapidschair.com; pawloskj@gvsu.edu; standric@gvsu.edu Received December 2009 Accepted May 2010 Abstract: A small furniture production company has integrated lean tools and sustainability concepts with discrete event simulation
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United States Environmental Protection Agency Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5302W) Policy, Economics & Innovation (1807T) EPA100-R-03-005 October 2003 www.epa.gov/ innovation/lean.htm Lean Manufacturing and the Environment: Research on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and the Environment and Recommendations for Leveraging Better Environmental Performance ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report was prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
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Postgraduate Engineering and Management Programme - PEMP Module Code Module Name Course Department EMM515 Lean Operations and Management of Lean Organizations M.Sc. in Engineering and Manufacturing Management Mechanical and Manufacturing Engg . Name of the Student Reg. No Batch Module Leader Liju G BUB0912004 Full-Time 2012. SANDEEP. N M.S.Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies <Lean operations& Mngnt of Lean Org.> Postgraduate Engineering and Management Programmes(PEMP) #470-P, Peenya Industrial Area, 4th
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[pic] Case Study #1 Submitted by: Team #2 Fernanda G. Isidoro Correa Henrique Siqueira Madeira Rafael Frasson Pereira Rafael Gomes de Carvalho MSE 507 Prof. Scott Wainess Date 10-08-14 Table of Contents 1. The Lean Implementation 2. The Five Principles of Lean a. Specifying Customer Value b. Identifying the Value Stream c. Making the Value Stream Flow d. Implementing Customer Pull e. Pursuing Perfection 3
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Business Process Management Journal A systematic review of Lean Six Sigma for the manufacturing industry Saja Ahmed Albliwi Jiju Antony Sarina Abdul halim Lim Article information: Downloaded by North South University At 22:57 26 January 2016 (PT) To cite this document: Saja Ahmed Albliwi Jiju Antony Sarina Abdul halim Lim , (2015),"A systematic review of Lean Six Sigma for the manufacturing industry", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 21 Iss 3 pp. 665 - 691 Permanent link to
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Lean Management In Automobile Industry Lean Management In Automobile Industry Arvinder Singh, Bargavi Poloju, Inderpreet Kaur, Inderjeet Kaur, Jaskaran Singh Gill Eastern Institute of Technology September 10, 2015 Abstract Lean and six sigma are widely known business improvement processes for industries /organisations these days for achieving drastic results, which are majorly cost cutting, quality maintenance and time management by specializing in processes to boost performance. Nowadays
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Int. J. Mgmt Res. & Bus. Strat. 2013 Jaskanwal Singh Mand et al., 2013 ISSN 2319-345X www.ijmrbs.com Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2013 © 2013 IJMRBS. All Rights Reserved APPLICATION OF LEAN AND JIT PRINCIPLES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Chandan Deep Singh1, Rajdeep Singh1, Jaskanwal Singh Mand1* and Sukhvir Singh1 *Corresponding Author: Jaskanwal Singh Mand, mandjaskanwal@yahoo.com Supply Chain Management is a set of synchronized decisions and activities utilized to efficiently integrate
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