Essays on Lean Manufacturing

Step 1: Product Life Cycle

Position in Product Life Cycle Based on the sales report of 2015 and 2016, the Alikay Natural’s moisturizing black soap shampoo is at the decline stage of product life cycle. A continuous decline could be seen in units sold and revenue generated from the product in last two years. The turnover of the product has started increasing while market share is decreasing with each passing quarter. Decreasing sales volumes, reducing revenues, increased inventory turnover, and declining market share suggests that it might be the beginning of the end for the moisturizing black soap shampoo by Alikay Naturals. Such ...

Multi-Organisational

Enterprises & System(BNM830) Major: Supply Chain Management Total word count: 5728 Net Word Count: 5023 PART 1 A. Apple Inc. is one organization that is known by many to deliver a diverse and complex product-service system. The firm is a technology organization whose products are of high quality and more available to its clients. The company also provides varied services and has opted to venture into other complex activities that are not common with many, if not all, technology companies (Apple, 2015). One of its best selling products is the iPhone6 brand that is not only available in the ...

Lean manufacturing system

Lean manufacturing system is a systematic process that can be implemented to any well-organized system in order to pin point and eliminate the factors that are not valuable to the customer of the final product. The process of lean manufacturing systems itself was developed by Toyota Corporation (Lancaster, 6). The technique was quite effective which was very clear from the improvement in the revenues of Toyota Corporation after its implementation. And it is one of the major reasons that had helped in upliftment of Toyota Corporation from its crisis (Prakash, 4). But it seems that the application of lean ...

Lean manufacturing system focuses on providing impeccable customer service at an incredibly quick pace. For most of the American manufactures, superimposing their existing production methods with lean production techniques would cause huge disturbance and pain (Womack, Jones & Roos, 2007). Also, lean is basically a change in the management paradigm from the traditional small craft approach to mass production. One of the most important factors that led most of the American companies to fail in implementing the lean manufacturing system is the absence of a standardized procedure in practicing the lean system. For instance, even as Toyota successfully implements the ...

Today, manufacturing processes are a major part of most businesses. It provides employment for organizational workers and is the only way to bring science to life. Thus, there is a need for organizations to improve their performance so as to create significant value for their businesses. This is made possible through manufacturing excellence approach that helps organizations to adapt to new as well as changing markets. Manufacturing excellence ensures that a rigorous assessment is carried out on the overall performance of organizations so that it is in line with the financial impact expected for the organization as well as ...

How my chosen organization compete within its business area

Toyota is a leading manufacturer of automobile in the global setting, a position that has been earned through overcoming various hurdles over the past decades. One of the primary attributes that have contributed to the company's success is its focus on effective quality management (Toussaint, 2016). Moreover, the company's success is associated with a strict management system, which is based on the different principles of operations management as will be explained in the study. By embracing the above techniques, the company has experienced tremendous growth over the recent past. Therefore, the above study seeks to account for the significance ...

The article on The Air Plane Game is very enlightening and makes it easier to understand the different aspects of lean manufacturing and lean accounting that would otherwise be challenging to understand. The game was an interesting one even for students who had no knowledge of the lean processes. After going through the game, the understanding of the lean processes become practical and a student is able to point out the various challenges that are encountered in the manufacturing process and how they can be overcome by both the participants and the management. In this case the management was ...

Q1. There is an article posted on Moodle titled, “Using Lean Philosophy to Improve Passenger Departure Flow in Abu Dhabi Airport.” Read this article first and then answer the following part (a) and part (b) questions: After reading the above mentioned article, what were the main lessons learned from this paper? State between 3-6 lessons learned. [3 points] The standard ten wastes of lean manufacturing cannot always be applied in their original state due to the differences in the operational processes and their connection to each other and should be revised in every new situation. The elimination of the ...

Lean Manufacturing

The article is very informative in terms of lean manufacturing. Due to its thorough literature review the process and principles of lean philosophy seem clearer (“Principles of Lean”). Firstly, it explains what forms waste or muda. The activities that absorb resources, but create no value should be referred as to waste. It can be defined only by identifying customers and defining value of a product to them. For every process this waste may be composed of different activities from different spheres. Secondly, the process mapping is crucially important for being able to see a product or service from the ...

Question 1

5S is the business model that supports the improvement of working environments, concept of business and leads to increase in quality and value (i.e. the final goals of a company). 5S is the acronym of five Japanese words, such as Seiri (sort), Seiton (order), Seiso (cleanliness), Seiketsu (standardization), and Shitsuke (sustainability) (Gürel, 2013). It can be used effectively in the hotel setting. For instance, in the context of kitchen of a hotel Seiri refers to the organization of working stations and equipment. The purpose is the reduction of wastages and losses i.e. apprentice throw away the wastages in ...

Zara

Introduction and Background The case of Zara, a famous fashion clothing manufacturer, has been considered with the focus on inventory management and lean operations. The major aim of lean manufacturing (Just-In-Time) is to reduce the cost through having control over inventory and reducing waste. Zara is a fast fashion retailer and fashion changes rapidly. Therefore, it is difficult to estimate the demand for products. Hence, Zara procures the material in bulk and cut the clothes into pieces. However, when fashion changes and demand for any specific design rise, the retailer prepares the dresses on demand (Just-In-Time). In this way, ...

Introduction

The production line refers to a set of sequential operations launched in a factory whereby the raw materials are passed via the refining process to produce tissue that is suitable to be used in institutions, households, and industries. The article by Ishakawa and Hirasawa (2012) describes how printing and aqueous lotion chemicals can be applied to improve the quality of tissue papers. Furthermore, the article by Abdulmalek and Rajgopal (2007) look deep on the benefits accrued from lean manufacturing and how they can benefit manufacturing companies. The paper will comprehensively address the production line, its ways, and advantages as ...

A case study of Nucor Steel Corporation

Nucor Steel Corporation was founded in 1897 by Ransom Eli, an auto manufacturer who formed the REO Motor as noted in Nucor-WOW.com. The corporation is headquartered Charlotte, North Carolina and it is the largest steel producer in the United States. Particularly, the corporation operates in three segments namely the Steel Mills, Steel Products as well as the Raw Materials. It manufactures many products ranging from the steer bars and decks as well as the cold rolled bars among other products for industrial uses. Given that the company requires a lot of project management due to the coordination of the ...

Introduction

Supply chain management primarily entails the coordination of functions within an organization as well as tactics used to execute those functions. Also, it involves tasks’ coordination across the partners participating in the supply chain with the principal objective of ensuring improved organizational performance. The definition of the supply chain clearly depicts the nature of the coordination between the partners involved in the business and appreciates the primary purpose of the supply chain management. Apparently, this approach aims at improving organizations’ as well as the individual performance (Lee et al., 116). There are two main components of the supply chain, ...

Introduction

According to the case study, Somerset had a good strategic marketing plan through a continuous launch of new products after every few years. This took place during the 20th C where the company experienced some positive effects after the application of the total quality management (TQM) in its furniture manufacturing. Somerset is known for the high quality products that are affordable in the domestic market. On the other hand, Somerset experienced stiff competition in the 1990s, high rate of labor and this made the proceeds of the company to decrease. While trying to solve the above problems, Somerset began ...

Elements of Lean

Lean is a production practice that aims at satisfying customers through immediate delivery, high quality products, and time. Numerous manufacturing companies are turning to lean manufacturing processes for revenue maximization. Lean manufacturing can create strong financial results for an organization. Production System in Toyota was the first system to begin utilizing the concepts of lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is the methodical removal of waste, implementation of uninterrupted flow, and customer pull system (Carreira, 2005, p.45). This paper discuses lean manufacturing in GM (General Motors Corporation) and how it fits in with the company’s vision

The first basic element of lean ...

Introduction

For any company to maximize profits, it must try to implement Just in Time (JIT) demand based system, forecast driven system or lean manufacturing. This is done while considering their advantages and disadvantages i.e. how they affect the company in terms of workers and the equipment they use. Companies must also dispense proper management so that production of goods and services is increased (Perry, 2008).

Body

In the manufacturing industries, JIT demand based systems are used in operations management. They need accurate specification and handling of materials to attain minimal inventory levels. They also use stock as a market defense in ...