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[Jarod Geis]

Glossary 1 homework

This blog is titled "Lean Enterprise Blog", it discusses the four rules of the Toyota Production System. The author impresses the importance culture has on carrying out the four rules. The blog is easy to read and interpret. The meaning I got will only be as successful as those teaching the rules of lean production. A portion of the blog talks about production leveling strategy being a years worth of varied demand for goods or services smoothed out over a month, week, or day to illustrate the workload being leveled. A mixed model flow is discussed for workplaces that produce more than one product. Further discussion reveals the magnitude of workload performance that is important for producing several products. Further, it stresses the importance of wasted time and effort that needs to be reduced in order to have the mixed model flow work. Continuing down the blog you will find a definition for value, and a few concepts about its importance. The blog discusses the importance of lean in health care along with value stream mapping reducing turnaround times. It provides great insight into the push pull system and the seven wastes. The seven wastes are broken down and are each discussed in a few sentences. There is an eight waste identified here—underutilized. Clicking on the older links will take you to the last of it, and it discusses the concept of lean thinking. Lean thinking extends lean production throughout the entire enterprise. It includes value stream mapping, and JIT manufacturing. Lean thinking really plays a crucial role in reducing the amount of waste. The results produce value or no value and is an end to all ends in staying competitive, reducing costs, generating money, and brining in more sales.

[|Lean Enterprises Blog]

This youtube video provides a brief history of Toyota’s lean enterprise from the times of Taichi Ohno to present. The beginning of the video talks about producing parts for only the products that need them. This holds true to overproduction in Chapter 2 page 24. This video tells us that just in time manufacturing minimizes inventory, eliminates waste, and maximizes productivity, all key measures ensuring lean enterprise. The idea is to provide quality assurance into every process. It is why Toyota has risen to the top and made it through troubling times, when others have not.

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I found wikipedia’s definition to be quite accurate. Lean is a step-by-step production practice by which all who persons take to eliminate waste in order to create value and give the customer what they want. Lean considers the customer and views it from their perspective. It is centered on value by eliminating less work.

[|Wikipedia]

This is a summary of a journal article titled “Effective Cost Management For the Lean Enterprise”, and it describes the concept of lean enterprise applied in the manufacturing industry. It best describes lean enterprise according to Lean Enterprise Institute as a means to manage and organize customer relations, suppliers, operations, and product development. The article tells how applying the concept creates better products with fewer flaws. It specifies value from the customer’s point of view, identifies the value stream for each product to be applied in a systematic way, and addresses effective cost management throughout the processes. Further, it tells the readers how the industry views reduced cost. This turns into a larger realm of thinking called lean thinking. The insight gathered must be informative enough to make resource management decisions. It discusses the focus and tells us the impact of effective lean enterprise. With it we can keep a balance of scales through good decision-making, and ultimately achieve a path to perfection.

[|Effective Cost Management For The Lean Enterprise]