The History and
the evolution of the manufacturing management can be identified and categorized
in to mainly three arenas. Such as,
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Craft Production
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Mass Production
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Lean Production
Before the organizations
are joined with the lean production, the pre industrialized world had an
intention towards the craft production. Basically, the Craft production is the process of manufacturing by
hand with or without the aid of tools. There, the final production which comes
from the craft production was unique with a highest quality. Further, craft markets were highly dependent on social
interactions and it consisted with high cost and the products were produced for specified market group. When the world
was developing, the craft production concept shifted in to the mass production
and it basically highlighting the manufacture goods in large quantity often
using standardized designs and assembly line techniques.
Eventually,
the industrialized world has become more competitive and drive towards the achieving
the waste reduction through lean production. Hence, in modern business
scenarios, most of the countries have accepted the lean concept and change
their thinking in to the lean philosophy. When consider the lean philosophy, it
is basically dealing with the waste reduction through reducing the lead time in
the particular production process. There, by minimizing wastage in the
production process, organizations are trying to achieve the highest quality,
increasing the delivery time and reducing the cost of the production. Further,
lean production is one of the remedies for the inefficiencies existed in the craft
and mass production.
When
consider the history of the lean it has thoroughly described in the book called
"The Machine that change the world (1990) by James P. Womack, Daniel Roos
and Daniel T, Jones. Further, the Toyota Company explained the excellence way
of lean manufacturing by introducing their Toyota Production System (TPS)
house. The Toyota Production System consisted with main pillars of Just in
Time, Jidoka, standardized work, kaizen,
and PDCA. By introducing different systems in to the business world the Toyota Company
has created a new production scenario to the world by showing the correct
pathway to the success.
