Abstract
The report discusses the benefits ofapplying the Leanmanufacturing in the organization to achieve the business efficiency by removing wasteful activities and by streamlining the operations and functions to deliver efficient product in the market or service within a given time frame. The process of lean manufacturing has been coined from World war II also known as Kaizan in Japanese, which states to make small changes in the processes that can be implemented in short period of time, usually in a day so to enhancethe functional efficiency immediately.Since after the initiation of industrializationand the boom of global integration of economies, achieving the functional and operational efficiency has become a major concern for businesses, in doing so, many organizations like Toyota or other logistic and service companies are implementing the 5 steps of the Lean manufacturing, in order to (1) achieve operational efficiency (2) sustain the business and (3) achieve the strong competitive advantage in the market.
Keywords: Lean Manufacturing
Introduction
The lean manufacturing system or the lean Thinking philosophy has beendeveloped by the Japanese under Kaizen theory ofup bringand upgrade the performanceand efficiency of the company. The company that first coined the process was Toyota, hence the lean manufacturing system is also known as Toyota production system.The term lean means, making the process, functions, operationsstraighten and simpler or change in order to benefit it from the external opportunities and in the maintenance of the competitiveadvantage.It outlines the lea practices that can be implemented in the organization to accomplish efficiency in processes and interval by eliminating the wasteful processes or functions. The main idea of leanprocessing is securing the cost of improving the efficacy (both operational and functional) to synchronize in with the market effectively andefficiently. (Womack, 2003).
Lean Manufacturing System Harvard Case Solution & Analysis
In addition, in the recent years from the popularity and effective results inoutcomes of the lean manufacturing in the organization, the implementation of such process has expanded from manufacturing industry to healthcare and service industry as well. However, the literature in analyzing the effectiveness of the Lean manufacturing in service industry is still scarce, making it completed to drive the actual crux of processimplementation. (Rich, 2008).Therefore, apart from being the most emergingindustry in the market, there is still a large fragment in the industry in terms of researchanddevelopment and literature to gauge the effectiveness of the infrastructuresinservicesector, which outlines that in future serviceindustrywill be able to manageand implement leanpractices that the research area is able to gasp, chancesare that the whole overall productivity and the efficiency of the service industry may increase, resulting in high consolidation of resource and integration of theglobaleconomies, leading to highly adaptive, effacing and speedy market. (D.T, 2010)
Analysis
As a new consultant to Kortie Company Ltd, explain to the management team how these steps can be implemented to achieve a competitive advantage.
The management team of the Kortie Company has developed 5 steps that are based on the lean structure or lean manufacturingstrategy.The aim of developing such steps is to assure the Wickham Skinner about the effectiveness of the lean manufacturing strategy which could lead to developing the competitiveadvantages in the market.......................
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