Can anyone give me a hypothesis on Lean Manufacturing?

Answer 1

Lean manufacturing is a management philosophy focusing on reduction of waste to improve overall customer value.

Types of waste:

1. Overproduction (making more than what is needed, or making it earlier than needed)

2. Transportation (moving products farther than is minimally required)

3. Waiting (products waiting on the next production step, or people waiting for work to do)

4. Inventory (having more inventory than is minimally required-Excess Inventory or Deadliest type of waste)

5. Motion (people moving or walking more than minimally required)

6. Processing itself (relates to standalone processes that are not linked to upstream or downstream processes)

7. Defects (the effort involved in inspecting for and fixing defects)

8. Safety (unsafe work areas creates lost work hours and expenses)

9. Information (age of electronic information and enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) requires current / correct master data details)


So, I don't know exactly what type of hypothesis you're looking for. If you just want a random example of lean manufacturing, you could say something like:

"I own a car production company and I believe that if I reduce the amount of time that my workers wait for parts and improve the safety of the work place that my overall customer value will increase."

Hope this helped!

Answer 2

If you have less costs (i.e. labor and overhead) you will make more money if you sell the same. Its real mind-blowing...NOT.