Lean Production - Softcover

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Lean production can be defined as an approach to significantly reduce waste, increase flexibility and minimize variability. These aspects are crucial in today's competitive landscape not only in manufacturing but also in many other sectors. It is, therefore, necessary for any excellent manager and engineer to understand the key principles of lean production in order to benefit from these well-established and successfully tested ideas. Lean production is a very complex construct of innovative changes in any kind of production process. Many of these elements can be found at Toyota. However, Toyota had already implemented other innovative production techniques prior to lean production from which Taiichi Ohno, the main promoter of the Toyota Production System, drew his inspiration. At the time Toyota introduced the lean production concept, Henry Ford's system of mass production was the most important production paradigm, which was preceded by a make-to-order craftsmanship approach. This book, therefore, brings out not only the history of lean production idea but also presents two frameworks to optimally plan and implement the concept and finally provides an overview of the most important tools and techniques for a successful change to a lean production approach.

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