Understanding Lean Manufacturing According to Axiomatic Design Principles
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Reynal, Vicente A.
Cochran, David S.
Date Issued
November 1996
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The Lean Aircraft Initiative Report Series;RP96-07-28
Abstract
The design and evaluation of manufacturing system design is the subject of this paper. Though much
attention has been given to the design of manufacturing systems, in practice most efforts still remain
empirically-based. Numerous idioms have been used in the attempt to describe the operation of
manufacturing systems. When a company tries to become "lean" or wants to increase the production and
become more efficient, the company will start to introduce numerous concepts developed by Toyota and
others. The problem is that a company does not know the order in which to implement the lean changes
or why they should implement what they are implementing. This approach greatly slows manufacturing
improvements when complementary or contradictive concepts are introduced on an ad-hoc basis. In this
paper, a sequence of implementation steps will be developed through the application of axiomatic design.
This sequence will provide a design methodology for lean production which connects manufacturing
system design objectives to operation design parameters. This paper will use the methodology developed
to improve manufacturing processes in two different companies.
Subjects
lean manufacturing
axiomatic design principles
manufacturing systems
design theory
process improvement
cellular manufacturing
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