Application of Lean Concepts in a Process Industry

Ganesh Mahadevan

Lean Manufacturing philosophy, with its origins in the Toyota Production System (TPS), has been well established world wide as a way to improve operational performance in the automotive and other discrete manufacturing sectors. However, there is a lot of scepticism in implementing lean in process industries where manual intervention is a bare minimum.

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