Lean production is a methodology for the elimination of waste within a manufacturing process. Lean also takes into consideration waste created through overloading and waste created through unevenness in workloads. From the customer point of view, when he/she consumes a product or a service, the value is what the customer will be willing to pay for. Thus, Lean is a strategy for achieving significant continuous improvement in organisational performance through the elimination of all waste of resources and time in the total organisational process for increased profitability.
Section1 – Understand how to use lean production and improvements methods to measure and analyse service problems 1.1 Evaluate a range of lean production and improvement …show more content…
Focusing on eliminating waste should be daily, hourly and even minute by minute. Now a day the term Lean is well known in manufacturing circles, but it has been with us for many years long before the Toyota Production System brought it to our attention in the 1950s.
Eli Whitney, was the person that changed the cotton industry. He has automated the seed separation process and could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton daily. This resulted in saving hundreds of hours that farmers used to take to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton. Moreover, this resulted in making cotton production profitable for the southern states. In the 1799, he was also the first one to use the concept of interchangeable parts. This concept was used to make 10,000 guns for the US army. This concept leads to mass produce products, with interchangeable parts, at an affordable price.
Fredrick Taylor, in the 1900, has introduced the concept of time study and work standard by looking at employees on individual basis and their working methods. In fact he is sometimes called as The Father of Scientific Management. Time Study is a concept used to measure the individual behaviour within a process. Such measures include identification of waste through processes and motion. On the other hand, word standardised is the documentation of processes or tasks that lead to best practices. Work standardise can help in eliminating waste …show more content…
By the late 1940’s Japans industry was collapsing and the economy was badly affected by the World War II. Furthermore, Japanese manufacturers faced many problems such as limited sources of raw materials, labour movements, and limited capital availability. Also, automobile manufacturers could not compete with the already existing forces of west. Especially players like Ford, simply out performed small manufacturers like Toyota. Challenged by the demands in the markets, especially overseas, Toyota gave the task of making a system which will stand in these conditions to Taiichi
Section1 – Understand how to use lean production and improvements methods to measure and analyse service problems 1.1 Evaluate a range of lean production and improvement …show more content…
Focusing on eliminating waste should be daily, hourly and even minute by minute. Now a day the term Lean is well known in manufacturing circles, but it has been with us for many years long before the Toyota Production System brought it to our attention in the 1950s.
Eli Whitney, was the person that changed the cotton industry. He has automated the seed separation process and could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton daily. This resulted in saving hundreds of hours that farmers used to take to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton. Moreover, this resulted in making cotton production profitable for the southern states. In the 1799, he was also the first one to use the concept of interchangeable parts. This concept was used to make 10,000 guns for the US army. This concept leads to mass produce products, with interchangeable parts, at an affordable price.
Fredrick Taylor, in the 1900, has introduced the concept of time study and work standard by looking at employees on individual basis and their working methods. In fact he is sometimes called as The Father of Scientific Management. Time Study is a concept used to measure the individual behaviour within a process. Such measures include identification of waste through processes and motion. On the other hand, word standardised is the documentation of processes or tasks that lead to best practices. Work standardise can help in eliminating waste …show more content…
By the late 1940’s Japans industry was collapsing and the economy was badly affected by the World War II. Furthermore, Japanese manufacturers faced many problems such as limited sources of raw materials, labour movements, and limited capital availability. Also, automobile manufacturers could not compete with the already existing forces of west. Especially players like Ford, simply out performed small manufacturers like Toyota. Challenged by the demands in the markets, especially overseas, Toyota gave the task of making a system which will stand in these conditions to Taiichi