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Victorious The highly flamable edition
Pull vs. Push systems
The Kanban system
Mass Production vs. Lean Production
Kaizen
SPECIAL DELL
…plus so much more!
Meet The Team
Editor in Chief
Simon Ramsden
Managing Editor
Jay Gada
Executive Editor
Shannie Tu
Creative Director
Flavia Vintila
Copy Editor
Emma –Zhuo Yi
Fact Checker
Ivy Huang
CONTEN
TS
Origin Story
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SPECIAL Dell
Lean Production
Ë The Kanban System and inventory management
Ë Push vs. Pull systems Ë Kaizen Ë Lean Production vs. Mass Production Ë Teamwork
LP has been described from two perspectives:
1st philosophical and is linked to the guiding principles and general objectives,
2nd more practical, and is related to the management tools and techniques of which it is comprised.
Kaizen
1
Kaizen was created in Japan following World War II and it means "continuous improvement", so it came from Asia accent. Kaizen is a system that improves all functions continually, and involves not only upper management, but also assembly line workers. They encourage their employees to write down improvement suggestion on a regular basis, for instance, Canon shared and implemented the suggestions which gotten from totally 60 to 70 employees each year. The main target focuses on sustaining amendment of processes in order to better improving standardized activities and eliminate waste (lean production) in manufacturing, engineering, and business management. Regarding to workers, Kaizen is a daily process to decrease excessive hard work and give them a humane workplace.
The examination of Kaizen concludes setting norms and then modifying those norms all the time. In order to keep those standards on an on-‐going basis, they provide straining, materials and supervision for staffs to increase or maintain their ability.
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In our opinion, Kaizen is a great method to make the companies that have good or stable business to better continuously, not just meet the current situation. In general, it may cause firms regression without innovation and improving. However, the Kaizen philosophy is to "do it better, make it better, and improve it even if it isn't broken, because if we don't, we can't compete with those who do."
There two successful example for Kaizen. Firstly, the appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recommended Kaizen to the U.S. president Obama in 2009. After Kaizen was used into the U.S. government, the government reduced wasteful spending. The figure showed about 33% of annual government outlays that cost totally $3 trillion. The result developed immediately plowed back into economic stimulus programs and became a benign cycle of economic growth.
Another great example is Fordyota Motor Corporation. It is an adventure idea that Ford and Toyota merge their operations for as long-‐tem planning. Both of them aimed to establish the standardization of hybrids as the vehicle of today, and decreased unnecessary research and development the fields of hybrids and fuel-‐efficient vehicles as well as increased quality across the supply chain. Finally, Ford was successful than General Motors in all areas and raised dramatically the adoption of lean manufacturing practice in the U.S. manufacturing industry.
BOOK Review
We find this book interesting and quite closely linked to the issues discussed in this installment of Victorious Secret as this is the book that made the term lean production known worldwide.
Authors:
James P. Womack Daniel T. Jones Daniel Rood
The Machine That Changed the World is a well-written book that highlights comparisons and contrasts among automobile manufacturers. The book is written for a general audience interested in the topic of automobile production. A chronological history of global automotive development and manufacture, from the industrial revolution to the present, provides many useful insights to the technology educator. Among the most important of these insights are discussions of the origins and future of manufacturing technology.
The book identifies "lean production" as a technology that is reshaping automobile manufacturing. While lean production may have originated in Japan under the concept of shared destiny, the authors emphasize that it is no longer confined to Japan.
The book provides useful insights into integrated product design, supply, distribution, manufacturing, accounting, marketing, management, and concurrency, a fact which makes it particularly appealing to students working on an essay or academics looking for a well-structured, well-developed piece of litrature.
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