Operational Strategies: Lean Production

Lean production is a Japanese approach to management that focuses on cutting out waste, whilst ensuring quality.

This approach can be applied to all aspects of a business – from design, through production to distribution.

1. The effective management of time.
Critical Path or Network analysis.

You should be able to interpret and complete critical path networks by entering ESTs and LFTs and understand the significance of critical and non critical activities.

 

 

Having seen the video can you now draw the critical path for this series of activities?

 

 



 

2. Just in time production.

 

3. Kaizen and Kaizen Groups
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Kaizen in practice from 4min 15:

 

 

 Nice article about Lean Production here.