Lean Production: A Systematic Approach for Waste Reduction in Manufacturing

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Lean, lean production, waste reduction, and lean manufacturing
1. RESEARCH CONTEXT
1.1 Overview
The principles of lean production are derived from a manufacturing industry in Japan. Lean can
be defined as a set of tools that help in the allocation and fixed removal of waste from a
production system. As waste is removed from a system, there is an improvement of quality while
the cost and production time are reduced.
1.2 Introduction
A lean production is a systematic approach for the reduction of waste within a system of
manufacturing without scarifying the efficiency of the system. This production also takes into
consideration the waste produced through unevenness in workloads and waste produced through
the overburden.
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
Lean production can be defined as a systematic approach for the minimization of waste within a
manufacturing system without scarifying the productivity of the system. The lean production
may be observed as a sloppily related set of possibly contending principles whose objective is
the decrease of cost through the removal of waste. The principles include visual control,
production flow, autonomation, maintaining and building a long-term relationship with supplier
flexibility, waste minimization, perfect first-time quality, and pull processing. The