Lean Manufacturing Research Paper

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2.2 Background of Lean Manufacturing
Origin of the lean manufacturing is after World War II, president of Toyota Motor Company, Toyoda Kiichiro says that “ Catch up with America in three years. Otherwise, the automobile industry of Japan will not survive”. There is because USA is the top manufacturing company in that century. A Japan guy who name Taiichi Ohno of Toyota, he use a lot of time to analyze production of America. He and Shingeo Shingo were developed the Toyota Production System or TPS. After that, during 70th to 80th century, the Toyota Production System knows as Just-in-Time or JIT. In 1990, Jim Womack wrote a book on topic by using “Lean” moniker. Toyota continuous does improvement by use several of tool and methodologies to …show more content…

This means that lean can actually apply in many types of business. Manufacturing not only for manufacturing sector, it can help an enterprise to process in more systematic way. Besides that, lean manufacturing is not only is a tool to apply in businesses or industries. Lean manufacturing had become a cultural phenomenon in the manufacturing, the factory which use lean manufacturing to work and success mean that they are quite strong. Therefore, it became a core system in many famous factories such as Motorola, Toyota, Apollo Harwood and so on, and all of these company is well known in world. So that, lean manufacturing had been proved that, it is a successful system, it is very important for many enterprises in …show more content…

Besides that, lean manufacturing is the concept of anything that does not create value in the product should be eliminated. In short word, it is concept of more value but for less work (The Folk Group, 2009). According to Meyers and Stewart (2002), lean manufacturing is the concept which all production employees work together to eliminate the waste.

Taylor was described lean manufacturing as a process level. He describes lean as designs the process that only will create value in the product as much as possible (Taylor, 1880 & 1990).

On the other hand, Drew, McCallum and Roggenhoffer (2004) was described lean is a tool set that very powerful and techniques that a lot of enterprises will use to implement and maintain as a way of improve the efficiency of production and overall customer value while at the same time eliminating waste. In addition, he explained waste is the things which add costs to a company but does not add any

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