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Lean Implementation In A Forging MSME In India
Ganesh Thanjavur Natarajan & Thirumani Muniswami Iyer Venkatesan
The forging industry in India, largely comprising MSMEs, is highly unorganized, leading to substantial wastes in the processes. These units are now in direct competition with similar units across the world. In order for these units to have a sustainable competitive advantage, these units need to leverage…
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…
Chronicles Of A Quality Detective
Dr. Shrinivas Gondhalekar & Payal Sheth
Co authored by Dr. Shrinivas Gondhalekar & Payal Sheth, “Chronicles of a Quality Detective” is a fascinating read on evolution of a technique called Developing Differential Diagnosis, a powerful approach towards solving quality problems. Quality defects tend to be tenacious. Often they linger at a certain level,…
Why Layout Is The Critical Factor In Operational Excellence?
Ganesh Mahadevan
Most lean interventions are done on existing operations that have been built up over a period of time and added product lines, technology and people as per the business goals of the time. In such legacy processes, we have the luxury of looking at things from a…
Is One Piece Flow The Only Way To Maximize Throughput?
Ganesh Mahadevan
Background Lean Manufacturing / TPS has been spreading its philosophy and concepts across industries worldwide over the last two decades. By now, most practitioners have broadly come to a consensus on the advantages of implementing One Piece Flow which is widely recognized as a core Lean concept…
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