Conventional Manufacturing versus Lean Manufacturing – Principles of Lean Manufacturing – Basic elements of lean manufacturing – Introduction to LM Tools.
Cellular Manufacturing – Types of Layout, Principles of Cell layout, Implementation. JIT – Principles of JIT and Implementation of Kanban. TPM – Pillars of TPM, Principles and implementation of TPM
Set up time reduction – Definition, philosophies and reduction approaches. TQM – Principles and implementation. 5S Principles and implementation - Value stream mapping - Procedure and principles.
Six Sigma – Definition, statistical considerations, variability reduction, design of experiments – Six Sigma implementation
Various case studies of implementation of lean manufacturing at industries.
Reference Book:
1. Toyota Production System -An integrated approach to Just in Time – Yasuhiro Monden, – Engineering aild Management Press -Institute of Industrial Engineers – 1983 2. James P Womack, Daniel T Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine that changed the World. The Story of Lean Production -Harper Perennial edition published 1991 3. Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems, Ronald G. Askin & Jeffrey B. Goldberg, John Wiley & Sons, 2003 4. Mikell P. Groover (2002) - Automation, Production Systems and CIM. 5. Rother M. and Shook J, 1999 - Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda‘ , Lean Enterprise Institute, Brookline, MA.
Text Book:
1. Womack J. P., Jones D.T. and Roos D. – ‘The Machine that Changed the World: the Story of Lean Production’ – Simon & Schuster, New York – 1996 2. Liker J. K. – ‘Becoming Lean’ – Industrial Engineering and Management Press – 1998
