Lean+Production

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 * Introduction. **

**definition:** Theories and practices of industry that are designed to achieve waste reduction and removal, within a business and improve productivity and quality.

Waste is seen as: Workers not being efficiently used. raw materials lying around unused can be seen as waste. Work in progress which is sitting around  The finished product sitting in a warehouse waiting to be delivered to customers is of an example of waste.

Lean production aims to remove all these elements of waste from the production process.

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Cell production Cell production has the flow production line split into a number of self-contained units. Each team or ‘cell’ is responsible for a significant part of the finished article and, rather than each person only carrying out only one very specific task, team members are skilled at a number of roles, so it provides a means for job rotation.

Amongst the benefits claimed for cell production are:


 * Closeness of cell members should improve communication, avoiding confusion arising from misunderstood or non-received messages
 * Workers become multi-skilled and more adaptable to the future needs of a business
 * Greater worker motivation, arising from variety of work, team working and more responsibility
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #202020; font-family: ClearSans,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Quality improvements as each cell has ‘ownership’ for quality on its area

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #202020; font-family: ClearSans,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Some of the downsides of using cell production include:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #202020; font-family: ClearSans,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Cell production may not allow a firm to use its machinery as intensively as in traditional flow production-productivity may be lower therefore.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #202020; font-family: ClearSans,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Recruitment and training of staff must support this approach to production-workers need to be able to multi-task

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