Lean Manufacturing: Recent Trends, Research & Development and Education Perspectives

Lean Manufacturing concepts are being adopted by modern manufacturing organizations to achieve competitive advantage. Lean manufacturing ensures waste elimination, streamlined processes and value addition. Applying lean concepts removes all non value added activities and focus only on enhancing customer value. Lean helps in minimizing or removing the activities that does not provide customer value. It also helps in achieving cost reduction as the non value added activities are removed. Modern manufacturing engineers are required to understand the importance of lean manufacturing . In this context, this chapter presents the core lean concepts/principles, lean tools/techniques and application domain of lean manufacturing. Recent trends and development in lean manufacturing field are also being presented. The importance of lean concepts in modern manufacturing curriculum as well the curriculum contents are also being highlighted.

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