Lean manufacturing is a method of carefully reducing non-value-adding work during production. Value is defined from customer’s perspective as any action or process that the customer will be willing to pay for. Lean manufacturing has been traced to automobile industry – Ford motors in the United States and Toyota motors in Japan(Singh et al., 2010a; Singh et al., 2010b). These companies simplified the processes of making their products by eliminating non-adding-value works. This also led to standardization.
Today, lean manufacturing is not only limited to manufacturing but has been applied across nearly all business activities such as marketing and services. Technip produces products for their use and on demand, as well as renders services
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2.2 Lean Manufacturing in Technip
Lean manufacturing, in conjunction with six sigma, has been implemented after obtaining the international organization for standardization (ISO) certification on quality – ISO 9001 – in 2004 ( 'Umbilical systems; customised umbilical systems for the global offshore oil and gas market, ' 2011). The lean manufacturing processes was necessitated through a need to reduce cost and optimize schedule. Although the implementation of lean manufacturing has brought about positive change through waste reduction, the potential benefits of the manufacturing technique have not been fully harnessed. The following are examples of how Technip has implemented its lean manufacturing technique:
• Appropriate production and inventory control: Technip umbilical systems (TUS) have an efficient inventory control system that minimizes inventory costs during project execution, especially at the procurement phase. TUS does not suffer from overproduction waste as products are only produced when needed due to high customization and uniqueness of every oil or gas field to be developed.
• Correct metrics: Although TUS has branches in five continents that use different metric systems, it has been integrated as part of the company’s culture to inquire the metric systems being used by all companies participating in a project. This process eliminates the waste associated with working to a different metrics from other project companies or
Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything than in mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment tools and less engineering time to develop a new product. A company becomes lean by continuously increasing its capacity to produce high-quality goods while simultaneously decreasing
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.
“Lean is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste (non-value-added activities) through continuous improvement by flowing the **product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of perfection.” Lockwood [24].
Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything than in mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment tools and less engineering time to develop a new product. A company becomes lean by continuously increasing its capacity to produce high-quality goods while
It is a present-day instance of the recurring theme in human history toward increasing efficiency, decreasing waste, and using empirical methods to decide what matters, rather than uncritically accepting pre-existing ideas. As such, it is a chapter in the larger narrative that also includes such ideas as the folk wisdom of thrift, time and motion study, Taylorism, the Efficiency Movement, and Fordism. Lean manufacturing is often seen as a more refined version of earlier efficiency efforts, building upon the work of earlier leaders such as Taylor or Ford, and learning from their mistakes.
Lean Manufacturing system pursues optimum streamlining throughout the entire system by the elimination of waste (non-value added/ waste) and aims to build quality into the process while recognizing the importance of cost reduction.
Lean is defines the manufacturing philosophy that reduces the time between the shipping and customer demand, which based on the systematic method by eliminating waste, that means giving the customer what they want when they want it, and don 't waste whatever. Rahmana, Sharif and Esa (2013) suggested lean production is mentioned to improve the company 's performance from the philosophy in reducing waste in order. That means, lean system destination is the decrease cost by removing the non-value activities, which they are applying a category of tools and techniques for checking and eliminating defective in the production process. In the Evenort Company should emulate the five overriding principles of lean thinking in terms of implementing lean that there is guarantee the company has been driving correctly in the lean manufacturing (Cardiff 2015) as can show in table 1.
(Dennis,2007). Over next 30 years, Taiichi Ohno solved numerous problems related to lean production in order to push his system through Toyota. Nowadays, the Toyota Production System (TPS) is used in accordance with “lean manufacturing” across the world (Tapping,2007). But today we face the same intimidating
Lean manufacturing is a continuous improvement practice that focuses on waste reduction. Waste in its simplest form is anything that is excessive and consumes resources. It can also be referred to as non-value-added activities that do not add value to the end product (Rizzo, 2008, 58). Sustainability on the other hand recognizes a print company’s capability to satisfy the 3 dimensions: people, profit and environment (Wirtenberg, 2013). These three dimensions are referred to as the triple bottom line (TBL). Even when a business is making a profit, anything that does not create value for customers, fulfill employees’ needs, and benefit the environment is wasteful and must be restructured to eliminate non-value-added activities (Wandiga, 2013).This is the philosophy of lean manufacturing; a beneficial concept that can help reduce the amount of wasted resources in a company and contribute to its sustainability.
The goal of research described application lean manufacturing to improving the manufacturing process on an assembly line in a car plant. Currently manufacturing process have so many disanvantagees,such as low efficiency, high cost, mass production quality is not stable, the accuracy is not high, and more labor and labor intensity,and these led to increased costs and less profit. Also sometimes the company cant achieve planned daily production target due to some activity wastes, which not added value to the production process.These are not conducive to the company’s future development. In order to make the company more competitive, company must have a new strategy to solve these problems. To achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence, you have to eliminate waste across your global production
Abstract The ‘‘lean’’ approach has been applied more frequently in discrete manufacturing than in the continuous/process sector, mainly because of several perceived barriers in the latter environment that have caused
Lean manufacturing is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination. Working from the perspective of the customer who consumes a product or service, "value" is defined as any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for. The goal of Lean is to becomes the creation and maintenance of a production system which runs repetitively, day after day, week after week in a manner identical to the previous time period. Lean is actually the set of "tools" that assist in the identification and steady elimination of waste. As waste is eliminated quality
❖ Mechanical Design: Jabil Circuit’s mechanical engineering design team involves in three-dimensional design and analysis of electronic and optical assemblies using modeling and analytical tools. It also involves in industrial design, advance mechanism development, and tooling management.
Lean operations and supply chain originated from the Toyota Production System in Japan and have influenced manufacturing over the past two to three decades. Lean is described as the product of applying the Toyota Production System to all areas of an industrial process. Toyota’s strategies are based on Just in Time manufacturing, continuous flow, reducing lead times, eliminating non-value added waste, and excess inventory, a pull system centred on customer demand and continuous improvement (Liker, 2004). These integrated processes became the basis of Lean manufacturing and have recently extended to include all aspects of the supply chain process. Raw materials arrive Just in Time for production based on the demand of the
The Lean Manufacturing approach is meant to transform non-value added activity into value added activity. Lean Manufacturing technology has its impetus and focus on whole operation. Lean Manufacturing methods are inclusive of all employees and involve a major change in the embedded attitudes of the individuals that make up the organizations. In today 's highly competitive world, the Indian organizations are striving hard to