Tham khảo tài liệu 'manufacturing handbook of best practices 2011 part 8', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 8 Lean Manufacturing Adi Choudri The term lean has been coined relatively recently to summarize Japanese manufacturing philosophy especially as exemplified by the Toyota system. Lean practices have appeared in other forms such as just-in time manufacturing and synchronous or quick response manufacturing in the sense that the underlying concepts are the same. The survival of an organization whether profit or nonprofit manufacturing or service oriented may ultimately depend on its ability to systematically and continuously eliminate waste and add value to its products from its customers perspective. Interestingly lean practices in their simplest form are founded on common sense and most of them are not even proprietary to any company. The business objective of lean is to make high-quality products at a lower cost with speed and agility Figure . This can certainly lead to an expanded customer base greater business and employment stability and increased shareholder value. Because we are not talking about a magical approach here this generally means that the relative success of lean manufacturing in a specific setting depends on how well the cultural behavioral and strategic aspects of the corporate entity were addressed during the lean journey. This also means that the vigor and sincerity of people both hands-on and off-the-floor will drive and guide the success of the lean approach. Lean practices are designed to eliminate waste and enhance the value of the company s products to its customers. Lean businesses compete by creating temporary cost quality and speed advantages in focused business areas but they cannot remain stagnant and rest on their laurels because as mentioned before these practices can and will be used by competitors probably with lessons learned. The only way to counter this is to develop a corporate mindset where everyone is focused on continuous improvement every day in everything they do leading to customer delight. Lean manufacturing is not a
