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PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART E-JOURNAL OF PROCESS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 236, Issue 3, Pages 894-906Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/09544089211051595
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Lean manufacturing; non-value adding activities; 5S; value stream mapping; Kaizen; total productive maintenance; lean manufacturing strategies
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While lean manufacturing has been successfully implemented in some organizations, it has not found much application in classical manufacturing organizations. This research focuses on mapping non-value adding activities with lean manufacturing strategies to help engineers and managers implement lean manufacturing successfully in classical manufacturing organizations.
In the literature arena, it is claimed that lean manufacturing has been implemented successfully in organizations. However, lean manufacturing has been finding little application in classical manufacturing organizations. A careful study of the literature would indicate that non-value adding activities have been occurring in classical manufacturing organizations and preventing the successful implementation of lean manufacturing. In order to overcome this deficient situation, the research reported in this paper was carried out. By carrying out this research, non-value adding activities were mapped with lean manufacturing strategies. In the beginning, 50 non-value adding activities and 27 lean manufacturing strategies were gathered from the literature arena. Through critical thinking, the non-value adding activities were mapped with lean manufacturing strategies. The list containing this map presented in this paper will be useful to the engineers and managers for successfully implementing lean manufacturing in classical manufacturing organizations.
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