Manufacturing Technology and innovation

 Lean manufacturing is a system to eliminate waste from manufacturing process to increase benifit. Lean manufacturing focus on removing unwanted process, inventory that is not useful in production and add cost in manufacturing product. Main motto of Lean Manufacturing is to reduce the cost of product, reduce delivery time and improve quality of product. Lean Manufacturing is first introduced in Toyota, Japan. Ohno Taiichi was a businessman and engineer is considered as father of Lean Manufacturing and he gave concept of removing of waste (this waste is term as Muda) from production system. He gave seven Muda that should be eliminate from production system. Lean manufacturing is also know as Lean management or just Lean. Initially Lean was used in only manufacturing industries only but after analysing the advantages of this system, it is now widely used in IT industries, medical industries and even financial institutions. This topic is also included in Management syallabus. Seven Muda