Improving Production Performance Through Lean Manufacturing Techniques & Education In Lean Concepts

Manufacturing productivity can be improved by reducing waste in production processes. Since the introduction of continuous flow and the concept of assembly line processing by Henry Ford, the industrial world has experienced a tremendous number of changes and modifications due to ever-increasing customer demands and expectations. These changes and growth have not always followed a systematic approach and have not always been without the accompanying growing pains. As a result, several significant problems have arisen. Companies have spent millions of human activity hours, have required a lot of resources and have created products with no value at all. Managers have made a countless number of costly mistakes which may have required rectification. Factories have had a great deal of products that were neither needed nor appreciated by the customer and this situation has resulted in overstock of inventories. All these problems can be summarized in one word: Waste, what the Japanese manufacturers refer to as “muda.”