A Case Study Based On Lean Thinking Principles And Techniques

Production practices have had an important role in satisfying the dynamic market. Many approaches have being developed in order to respond effectively to specific business requirements. In fact, some areas of management have focused its study on the overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of production in an effort to find the best methodology that ensures the business success and performance. However, complexities arise in this field because many variables such as costs, inventory, scheduling, suppliers, etc have to be considered in any business. Lean approach and the traditional approach are two points of view that aim to address this complexities, and those will be examined in this essay.

This lean production technique involves using a range of “practices designed to reduce waste and improve productivity and quality” (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006). The JIT principles use tools, and techniques that allow Riordan Manufacturing “to produce and deliver products in small quantities, with short lead times, to meet specific customer need” (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006).

The lean philosophy centers on the elimination of waste in all forms in an organisation (Shpak, 2016). Lean is usually implemented by initially

This white paper presents how the Lean methodology could be successfully applied in a healthcare system. As learned in previous discussions and readings, once executives realized that changes on the system and their methodologies are needed in order to improve process, is mostly when Lean is brought into the puzzle of business. A correct implementation of the Lean methodology will result on tremendous positive changes within the organization that will promote customer’s satisfaction, improve quality, thereby increasing profitability and even reducing costs for the organization.

This case study on the Diamond Wipes International Company will use management concepts to answer inquiries about the company. Context from the textbook will be used to support the answers and fully detail the company’s management views.

According to consultants in the case study, “We have found the output and also the input quality control inadequate and ineffective, substandard raw materials have been accepted from suppliers on fourteen occasions have repeatedly gone bad while in storage, inadequate supply of some items has either stopped or slowed down production, the morale among production workers is found to be very low.” The team leader is not performing his job well. The employees are being nonchalant at work which is destroying company’s image. As a result, the company will lose its business.

Every order needed two type of raw materials (equipments) :1-electrical , 2- mechanical ,the top staff wrote the necessary equipments in a list that called (BOM) bill of materials list . The BOM sent by enterprise resource planning software (ERP) to the material planning department, mechanical equipments were existed inside of the company and electrical needed to order to the supplier.

Now the organisation is looking at taxes and fuel costs rising a problem mentioned in the case study. This problem is related to two other problems which is lack of staff communication as well as transportation as they are the key aspects in making profit in an organisation. The work flow of the staff and whether the products are delivered on

The concept of Lean Manufacturing is well known and is being applied widely in industry. As industry moves forward in deploying lean concepts, it is important to recognize the potential benefit for attacking waste in above-the-shop-floor processes. While the benefits are significant in production, this typically constitutes less than 30 percent of the total cost of a product. Furthermore, the distributed, collaborative nature of manufacturing today depends extensively on efficient and cost-effective information processes among sites and throughout supply chains.

Your organization, a company that manufactures automobile brake pads, is about to introduce lean concepts into its operations in order to be more competitive with foreign manufacturers. The lean project manager does not understand why you, the safety manager, want to be a part of the process. Provide a convincing argument about what you can contribute if you are included.

The operational systems of organizations can be viewed as open systems, which interact with their respective environments on a continuous basis. In this context, these systems comprise synergetic and interdependent subsystems of input, process and output with the main objective of these systems being to efficiently and effectively deliver goods and/or services to their demanding customers (Yasin and Wafa, 2002). Confronting the challenges of global competition, companies have to reduce costs, improve quality, and meet their customers’ ever-changing needs (Canel et al., 2000). Even though lean techniques were developed for the manufacturing firms and

In a nut- shell, this case study tell us about a big project which faced so many problems within one year of project execution. The completion of this project was 3 years with a large budget of $50M. But due to problems the CHEMICS insurance company decided to update all their processes and systems. This project effect all the departments within the company.So a management team with hired consultants and some members of insurance company was formed.Moreover there was no project manager for this case study.After completion of one year there was no single project built and checked so senior management recognized that anything was not going as they expected so lots of issues were discovered.Management failed to solve many of the problems and issues,so confidence among the employees decresed.Three vendors were changed within a year.Also $10M was spent on this project, but no result was found.After all these, management realized that something was going wrong and they need some changes to overcome the problem.

According to the case study, Robert Owen, in the year from 1771 to 1856 was one the successful textile manufactures. Despite the fact that he was successful he had to go through with lots of problem including managerial. The first problem was; as the company was in the countryside so to retain and attract labour was the biggest challenge, building a industrial enterprise was not only problem that also included there should be churches, houses, shops and schools for those workers . Having large business in new place he had to introduce new management which is very difficult to implement and another problem was production control. Human Resource Management [HRM] and Corporate Social Responsibilities [CSR] was

This case study is about Buddy’ Snack Company in the period of started on the third generation of management. The company has a lot of experience as it was started in 1951, so more than 50 years since it had been operational. The case mention on 3 persons. The first person is Lynda Lewis is a very laborious employee of the

One of the most important things in a manufacturing company in order to obtain profit is to have a high level of quality and a minimum level of investment. This is the key that every company wanted to find during the years. In order to maintain a high position on the market and a competitive advantage, the implementation of a manufacturing strategy is very important.