An empirical-exploratory study of the status of lean manufacturing in India

Garza-Reyes, José Arturo; Parkar, Harshad Sudhir; Oraifige, Ilias; Soriano‐Meier, Horacio; Harmanto, Dani

doi:10.1504/ijbex.2012.047906

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“…As an expensive and scarce resource, manufacturing floor space is an important factor in manufacturing. The experience in manufacturing operations to use lean six sigma tools to improve issues with current processes and make products faster and cheaper (Garza-Reyes et al, 2012) has developed a knowledge base of how these tools can be used for continuous improvement. Hamel and Prahalad (1990) built upon this by pointing out the importance of linking core competencies and the competitiveness of an organisation where operations management would not just structure processes but would have detailed knowledge of its resources, look after them and use them intelligently to enhance competitiveness.…”

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Application of Design for Lean Six Sigma to strategic space management

Trubetskaya

McDermott

Ryan

2023

TQM

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PurposeThis paper outlines how Design for Lean Six Sigma methods aided a medical device manufacturing company in developing a new strategic space management and approval process for its manufacturing site.Design/methodology/approachThe project demonstrates the application of the Design for Lean Six Sigma and structured Define, Measure, Analyse, Design, and Verify methodology in designing and implementing a process that enables the case study manufacturing site to improve its space utilisation and free up space.FindingsThe project was validated in one manufacturing department, and the Design for Lean Six Sigma methodology resulted in creating 15% new space for that area, with opportunities identified to free up 44.7% of the total manufacturing floor space and realise over €2.2 million cost savings as well as start to manufacture new products launched.Research limitations/implicationsThe manuscript highlights for the first time how the Design for Lean Six Sigma methodology can be utilised for space utilisation and can be leveraged by other manufacturers. The current study's limitations are that it is a single-site case study application. Future longitudinal case studies on Design for Lean Six Sigma application in more manufacturing space utilisation projects would be useful. This study has implications for identifying best practices for Design for Lean Six Sigma methodology application in the device industry, thus improving the state of the art for introducing new manufacturing lines.Originality/valueThis is the first published work to utilise Design for Lean Six Sigma methodology for space utilisation in a medical device company. This review will provide medical devices and other manufacturing organisations with recommendations on utilising Design for Lean Six Sigma and design for improved space utilisation to reduce costs.

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Application of Design for Lean Six Sigma to strategic space management

Trubetskaya

McDermott

Ryan

2023

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“…Lean Manufacturing, also known as Lean Production [1], has long been considered an advantageous manufacturing method in various companies and industries on a global level as it aims for continually improving quality and efficiency in production process [2,3]. It is essentially about eliminating the activities that do not add value in the production and seven types of waste, also referred as muda in lean settings [4] and includes several techniques such as Total Quality Management, Just-in-Time [5], Kanban, and Jidoka [6].…”

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Lean Manufacturing Practices and Environmental Performance

Genç¹

2021

Lean Manufacturing

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Lean manufacturing is considered a rewarding production strategy due to its positive effects on organizational and economic efficiency in various industries. Given the growing ecological consciousness, environmental achievements of lean manufacturing also incorporate a strong economic relevance. The main objective of this chapter is, therefore, to investigate the impact of lean manufacturing practices on environmental performance and the existing coherences between Lean and ecologically oriented variables such as resource usage, energy consumption, and air pollution. The methodology is literature review evaluating the findings of research in this sphere. Besides the discussion of its principles and methods, current trends and challenges regarding lean production as a business model that supports eco-efficiency are presented. The implications of this study will allow executives to better recognize and simultaneously solve both the economic and environmental problems posed by their companies.

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“…In India, LM is adapted generally by large manufacturing enterprises (LME). For instance, the TATA MOTORS in India has been such an enterprise by actualizing LM in NANO cars and made an example of overcoming adversity [7]. Indian industries must pick the best possible device as per the work culture, work condition and foundation accessibility of the Indian business [8].…”

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Implementation of lean tools and techniques in an ethical papers production industry

Kukhan¹,

M²

2021

j. sist. manaj. ind.

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Lean manufacturing (LM) is established as a best practice to improve the performance of manufacturing industries. Not all the manufacturing industries realize the benefits of LM practices specifically continuous process industries. The present research work is intended to study the advantages of implementing LM practices in an ethical paper industry which is a continuous production industry. Presently, the industry suffers with the problems such as lack of productivity, raw material wastes, underutilized resources, and lack of standard practices in the production. Gemba technique is adapted to record the information related to the present manufacturing environment. Based on the current state analysis, the feasible lean tools are selected and implemented such as 5S, Kaizen, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). The improvements have been noted as reduced tool change over time, reduced material wastes, effective utilization of resources and provide safety guidelines to workers and operations. The implications of these improvements increased the productivity also.

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An empirical-exploratory study of the status of lean manufacturing in India

Cited by 36 publications

References 52 publications

Application of Design for Lean Six Sigma to strategic space management

Application of Design for Lean Six Sigma to strategic space management

Lean Manufacturing Practices and Environmental Performance

Implementation of lean tools and techniques in an ethical papers production industry

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