Briefly explain lean manufacturing process and quality tools required to implement it in any manufacturing industry?

Lean is the systematic method of elimination of waste in the Manufacturing organisation, Lean also takes into account waste created through over burden and also the waste created through unevenness in workloads

Tools used in lean are as follows

• 5 s
• Standardized work
• Performance Managemnet
• Kaizen
• Visual Management
• TPM
• Innovations/Automation
• Bottle neck analysis
• Value stream mapping
• Audits

Lean means "Muda" in Japanese. Muda means waste i.e., removing waste from the manufacturing system leads to lean manufacturing. According to Value Stream Mapping the entire manufacturing process is classified into 2 types, 1.Value added time 2. Lead time. The process of reducing Lead time will lead to Lean manufacturing. Lead time is due to 1.Material Availability 2.Inventory 3.Material movement 4.Quality rework 5.Production 6.Material storage etc.

These Lead time can be reduced by some of the tools

1. Heijunka

2. Visual management

3. TPM

4. 5S

5. Kanban

6. JIT

7. Pull Manufacturing System etc.

lean is to eliminate the non value added time in the manufacturing process. basically there are seven wastage like transport , inventory,motion,waiting,over production,over processing,defects,saftey. to eliminate this wastage the quality tools like 5s, kaizen, JIT, SEMD