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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Implementing Lean Manufacturing in High-mix Production Environment
Authors : Remigiusz Horbal, Robert Kagan, Tomasz Koch
Published in: Lean Business Systems and Beyond
Publisher: Springer US
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Lean Manufacturing concept is well described in the literature in the context of low-mix high-volume production. There are numerous case studies proving outstanding benefits of implementation Lean principles. Nowadays enterprises have to face the problem of high variety of products and dynamically changing demand. Lean tools and methods known from repetitive production do not always fit to high-mix environment. It causes problems with proper design of one-piece-flow production cells and material flow based on pull system. The purpose of the paper is to present a case study of implementing Lean concept in the enterprise producing high-mix of industrial fittings.