Introduction:
Lean manufacturing, lean enterprise, or lean production, often
simply, Lean 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.
Essentially, lean is centered on preserving value with less work. Lean
manufacturing is a management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota
Production System TPS hence the term Toyotism is also prevalent and identified
as Lean only in the 1990s. TPS is renowned for its focus on reduction of the
original Toyota seven wastes to improve overall customer value, but there are
varying perspectives on how this is best achieved. The steady growth of Toyota,
from a small company to the worlds largest automaker,has focused attention on
how it has achieved this success.
Lean manufacturing is a variation on the theme of efficiency based
on optimizing flow; 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.
Number of Pages of Project Report: 60
Package Includes: PPT + Project Report
Project Format: Document (.doc)
Table of Contents of Project Report:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION
Statement of the Problem
Research Questions and Objectives
Research Objectives
Assumptions
Limitations
Definition of Terms
CHAPTER 2 : THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
CHAPTER 3 : LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER 4 : COMPANY PROFILE
CHAPTER 5: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Type of Research Method
The Sample
Data collection
Data Analysis method
CHAPTER 6 : DATA ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 7 : FINDINGS , CONCLUSIONS & SUGGESTIONS
Restatement of the Problem
Conclusions
Major Findings
Recommendations
CHAPTER 8 : BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 9 : Appendix Questionnaire
