The Evolution of the Manufacturing Management

The History and the evolution of the manufacturing management can be identified and categorized in to mainly three arenas. Such as,

ü  Craft Production

ü  Mass Production

ü  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.