Lean Manufacturing Is The Fundamental Means For The Development Of The Economy

Waste is a non-value adding activity. 7 types of wastes: Transportation, Inventory, (Excess) Motion, Waiting, Overproduction, Over-Processing, and Defects (TIMWOOD). 8th category: Unused creativity.

Identified wastes in the current processes using the seven wastes as a guide to what should be looked for. The question was asked, “Why did this waste occur?” and, “What can be done to prevent it?”.

In a paper discussing the differences between American and European sustainability and innovation it seems fit to start with what was overwhelmingly the greatest difference, waste. Waste management in Germany is extremely thrifty with very little actually ending up as “waste.” We learned at the EBK waste treatment center in Konstanz that they are trying to create a culture where rather than calling it waste it is rebranded as “valuable material” due to the

Lean production of vehicles was started in Japan by Toyota company. It has some similarities with the mass production; however, it is quite different from the craft production. One of the main similarities that the lean production shares with the mass production is that they both use the assembly line for the production of the vehicles, which was initiated by Ford. Unlike, mass production: “Ohno placed a cord above every work station and instructed worker to stop the whole assembly line immediately if a problem emerged that they couldn’t fix” (56). In the mass production, if the problem occurred, and no one paid attention to it while the production process, then the car company had to fix the errors in all the vehicles that had been produced no matter how large the quantity was. In the lean production of vehicles: “Ohno instead instituted a system of problem-solving called “the five why’s” (56). Taiichi Ohno, the founder of Toyota company, made sure that once the problem has been identified in the production process, then what kind of precautions company can take to prevent the problem, so it never occurs again, which saved a lot of time compared to mass production. One similarity that lean production has with the craft production is that the vehicles were not produced on a larger scale, rather they were diverse small vehicles, such as trucks and cars. In the mass production, changing the die cut process took months; however, in the lean production process reduced

When it comes to waste, the lean philosophy has a very broad definition that includes anything that

The Natural Science Class at Spring Arbor University, challenged me to identify three ways in which I, a business or corporation, and the government can reduce environmental waste. Each solution must contain supporting documentation pertaining to the feasibility, cost, and estimated reduction. The solutions I have identified are:

Waste management applies to a variety of resources, from food to energy to water. Nature itself produces no waste,

Waste has been cataloged as a discrepancy within the system. This means that generators of wastes have created and designed a series of mistaken processes. According to Connet (n.d.), “Waste is the evidence that we are doing something wrong” (p. 1). Therefore, there is more beyond the concept of waste and its generation. It is not only the approach of how to dispose the waste or how to develop modern advance technologies that at some extent diminish wastes, but to reduce the levels of consumerism and to develop a closed loop as in electrical engineering, where the current (wastes) is not allow to move outside the loop. For Connet (n.d.) “instead of trying to become more sophisticated about getting rid of waste, we have to stop buying things we do not need, and industries have to stop making things, which cannot be reuse in some way” (p. 1). Certainly, there is the need for the industry to focus on product re-designed, in which the product life cycle does not end in disposing or any method that consumes energy for treatment or transformation, but to have a product that can be regenerated as usable and also be viable for substituting as virgin materials.

Lean Manufacturing is a very popular and successful strategy, which many manufacturing companies have adopted over the past 60 years. Mone Consulting Firm has been referring this method for more than 20 years at a high success rate of 99%. If implemented effectively “going lean” for Classic Cable Company will have a positive impact throughout the entire enterprise, by introducing attainable goals. The goals of lean manufacturing will achieve: a balanced rapid flow, eliminate waste and disruptions, and maintain a flexible system. After reviewing CCC’s case background, some overall recommendations and problem solving should be considered in the following order.

Waste has been around for thousands of years, yet it still remains an issue today for countries to collect and dispose of waste effectively (Samah 1810). Managing waste has become a larger issue recently than it was in years past due to an increase of the world population. As a result of poor waste management, several issues have risen. Current methods of waste disposal, such as incinerators and landfills, have several downfalls associated with them due to the pollution these methods of disposal can cause. Another issue that is the result of poor waste management is electronic waste, which can leak toxic chemicals if not disposed of correctly. A third issue that is also associated with poor waste management is the Pacific garbage patch, a large collection of small plastic bits floating at various depths in the Pacific Ocean. One example of effective waste management is curbside recycling, which reuses unwanted materials and transforms the materials into new products.

Many words can describe this 21st century world that we live in. One of those words and arguably the one that drives modern society would be growth. Economical, political, geographical, sociological; growth defines the changes to a society and it creates the mold for it. But growth always comes with tradeoffs; and one of those tradeoffs is ravaging through modern society like a cancer, growing bigger and bigger as demand and growth increase. This trade-off is what we call waste; material that are no longer required or useful after their intended use (Oxford dictionary). This essay aims to tackle on why waste present modern society with a crisis and how proper sustainable development strategies can help us to find a solution and maybe even gain something back from this problem.

The process is initially studied and the critical requirements of the customer (VOC) and the Critical to quality (CTQ) areas of the process were identified.

The primary use of lean principles was in the manufacturing domain earlier, later it spread to various processes across various industries. It was believe that the idea of lean originated in japan (Toyota), but there is evidence that the Mr. Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company has been using the principles of lean in the early 1920’s.

1. The growth of population and economic development has increased the problem of waste management.

When someone who has had some contact with Lean Manufacturing talks about waste they are often talking about Muda, or the seven wastes (or 8+ wastes depending on your definitions), but they often forget the other wastes defined within the Toyota Production System; Mura and Muri.