A Review on Lean Manufacturing Implementation Tools

Abstract

Lean Manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and reducing the wastes present in a production system. According to Lean Thinking there are mainly seven wastes. Lean principles are derived from Japanese manufacturing industry. Toyota was the first company which implemented the lean manufacturing. Lean Manufacturing aims to increase productivity by simplifying operations and reducing the wastes from the system.Waste can be any activity which does not add value to the end product. There are many types of barriers and challenges in implementing lean. There have been many attempts in industry to implement lean manufacturing but very less of them has succeed. An attempt has been made to develop a lean route map for the industry to implement the lean  manufacturing  system in this paper.