Open AccessA LEAN MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR THE ROMANIAN TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY
Author(s) -
Adriana Dima,
Ruxandra Dinulescu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
business excellence and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2668-9219
pISSN - 2248-1354
DOI - 10.24818/beman/2019.9.2-03
Subject(s) - textile industry , lean laboratory , productivity , textile , business , lean manufacturing , clothing , manufacturing engineering , lean project management , process (computing) , romanian , operations management , engineering , computer science , economics , software construction , operating system , macroeconomics , archaeology , software , software system , history , programming language , linguistics , philosophy
Lean management represents a systematic approach used for identifying and eliminating waste and non-value added activities from different industries, including the textile industry. Even if the lean manufacturing concept has shown important results in continuous process industry, the textile industry represents a good area for implementing this methodology targeting as a main objective the action of eliminating waste, thus reducing costs and therefore, increasing productivity. Being a customer oriented process, the system has the ability to eliminate a significant part of waste from the Romanian textile industry. As a result, this is an incipient study aimed to present the benefits of implementing Lean Management in the Romanian textile industry, through its improvement tools, as well as presenting a theoretical economic impact for a textile company. Also, taking into consideration that Lean Management is not yet applied in the Romanian textile field, the study will present a part of the areas which would need the Lean implementation, as well as further actions to be taken in order to improve productivity in textile industry.