Study of Lean Production’s Impact on Improving Manufacturing Enterprise’s Core Competitiveness

Abstract

The manufacturing enterprises in China began to learn and apply lean production at early 1980s, but till now the application scale and level is still far behind Japan and America, so it is necessary to research the relation of lean implementation with enterprises in China. This paper applies grey superior analysis to study lean production’s impact on manufacturing enterprises’ core competitiveness using practical data of China. Through analysis, key factors of lean production to competitiveness improvement and main aspects of core competitiveness affected greatly by lean production are recognized. Finally, based on analysis result, some advice on implementing lean production successfully is given to manufacturing enterprises of China.