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- Cell Production
- Just in Time
- Kaizen (continuous improvement) and Total Quality Management (TQM)
To write your Case Study:
- Choose a workplace situation that wastes time, money or other resources, and provide a brief background on it. Analyze the situation. How is it wasteful? What is causing the waste to occur?
- Determine which of the three approaches to Lean Production is most applicable to your situation.
- Write your Case Study, making sure it explains:
- the wasteful situation you have chosen, how it is wasteful, and what causes it to be wasteful
- the three different approaches to Lean Production. Explain them in your own words, and in plain, simple language (no jargon).
- the Lean Production approach that is most applicable to your situation and why
- how you would apply Lean tactics to address the situation. How would doing so solve or reduce the waste problem?
- Here are som links to the resources
- The aldi case study can be reviewed on the aldi-edition file
https://www.epa.gov/lean/lean-thinking-and-methods-kaizen use this file to learn about the kaizen method and its vaious applications
- https://www.tutor2u.net/business/reference/production-lean-production-gcse use this link to learn of the 3 lean production methods
- https://youtu.be/jlcrqb2qMAA just in time and kaizen methods can be viewed on this video
- https://www.tutor2u.net/business/reference/cell-production read this to learn of cell system in lean production
- the last resource is differences between strategy,plans, and tactics based on Lean production!