Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Carton Industry — A case study

Lean manufacturing (LM) implementation is an ongoing effort of continuous improvement in manufacturing processes. To support LM, production engineers persistently examine the processes to discover and eradicate inherent wastes. Therefore, this study is devoted to examine the influential factors of LM implementation. A case from the carton industry is discussed considering the key lean tools such as pull system, customer involvement, supplier participation, housekeeping, poka-yoke, SMED, TPM, standardized work, Kaizen, leadership HRM, planning, process management, one piece flow and quality. The case implementation yields about 28.7% over the suggested manufacturing process areas.

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