Lean Production Flashcards
What are effective lean production enquiries?
-good relationship with suppliers
- Committed, skilled, and motivated employees
What is Time Based management?
A approach that seeks to reduce the level of wasted time in the production of a business
What is Simultaneous engineering ?
Helps firm develop and launches new products more quickly. All aparts of project are planned together
What is Cell production?
A form of team working where producing processes are split into
What is the Just In Time?
Process that aims to ensure that inputs into the production processes only when they are needed
What are the benefits of cell production?
Workers become multi-skilled and more adaptable to the needs of the business
-quality improvements as each cell has “own ownership” for quality on its area
What are advantages of JIT?
- lower stock which means less storage space which saves rent and insurance cost
-less likely of stock perishing, becoming obsolete or out of date
What are the disadvantages of JIT?
There is little room for mistakes as minimal stock is kept cor re-working faulty products
Production is highly reliant on suppliers
