A Review of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Automobile Industries

Abstract

Lean manufacturing is a concept which is developed for the purpose of reducing the waste generated with increase in the utilization of resources. The term lean was formulated and designed in order to respond to the fluctuations and to challenge business environmental competition. In today’s scenario, business environments are rapidly changing. Thus, forcing organizations to face the challenges along with the complexities. Many of the organizations, such as manufacturing or service oriented related to survive are dependent ultimately to the systematic and continuous respond for the changes which are enhanced with the product values. In order to achieve this perfection, value adding process plays a major role. Thus, for many type of organizations, implementation of a lean manufacturing system becomes a core competency in order to sustain. From analyzing the studies based on lean management major part of study describes only a single part of the lean element, only very few studies focus on a greater number of aspects of lean element. In order for successful lean manufacturing implementation, the organization have to focus on many aspects such as Cellular Manufacturing (CM), Line Balancing, 5S Techniques, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Inventory Control, U-Line system, Kanban, Pull system, Just-In-Time (JIT), Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Production levelling, Bottleneck effect etc.… From this paper, we have analyzed and developed lean route map which can able to implement lean manufacturing system in organizations