new gom5-lean production(ppt 36页)

new gom5-lean production Intorduction:
What is lean production?
 Contrasting with Crafts and Mass productions:
The craft producer uses highly skilled workers and simple but flexible tools to make exactly what the consumer asks for—one item at a time
The mass production (developed at the beginning of the 20th century) uses narrowly skilled professionals to design products made by unskilled or semiskilled workers tending expensive, single-purpose machines. These churn out standardized products in very high volume.
The lean producer combines the advantages of craft and mass production, while avoiding the high cost of the former and the rigidity of the latter. Toward this end, lean producers employ teams of multiskilled workers at all levels of the organization and use highly flexible, increasingly automated machines to produce volumes of products in enormous variety

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