The 15 most important lean manufacturing tools (Part 1)
Lean manufacturing is a modern enterprise management concept aimed at maximizing the reduction of all possible losses of an enterprise that can occur at any stage of the life cycle and in any process of its activity. Lean manufacturing is a set of key methods and tools, each of which, if properly applied in the company’s activities, can lead to an increase in its efficiency. The practice of global application has shown that the integrated use of these methods significantly exceeds the return on each method individually. The articles discusses 15 key lean manufacturing tools used by various companies around the world. Each tool is considered from the standpoint of the possibility of its influence on the optimization of the production process.