Subject: Production Engineering and Robotics

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 4 Marks

Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply "lean", is a systemic method for the elimination of waste ("Muda") within a manufacturing process.

Lean manufacturing is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination.

Working from the perspective of the customer who consumes a product or service.

It gives values for processes that a customer would be willing to pay for.

Lean is the management philosophy developed by Toyota production system. It focuses on reducing waste.

Benefits of Lean manufacturing:

1) It eliminates waste

2) It enhances productivity

3) It helps to obtain higher customer satisfaction

4) It reduces per unit cost

5) It controls inventory