Lean Manufacturing Implementation

For students this book helps out to move beyond authoritarian system, get transformed into responsible, independent, participative learners and critical thinkers thereby provoke change in attitudes by incorporating spirit of activism having confidence to apply learned skills in work-job function. For practitioners, the issue of implementing the factory is as critical as designing the factory. Factory design for diffusion of new technologies in Lean manufacturing, extend help for the adoption of lean manufacturing in Indian industries. Explored relationships between factory design and lean manufacturing through two tools, axiomatic design and a queuing model. Drawn explicit understanding of factory design and lean manufacturing and make it explicit. Axiomatic design helped exploring essence of a lean factory, Features: independent departments through buffers and management structures, Decentralized support activities for problem solving and continuous improvement activities, Modular and scalable factory features that allow ease in continuous improvement in factory layout.