What is lean management?

Lean management is a way of enterprise management.

Lean production is a concept put forward by MIT in two monographs, Decline and Countermeasures of American Manufacturing Industry-Machines to Regain Production Advantage and Transform the World, published in 1989 and 1990.

The management mode of lean production is called lean management.

Function; Ensure that all employees actively participate in improvement and improve the quantity and sustainability of improvement.

Mode; Change employees' behavior habits and ensure that all employees actively participate in improvement.

Purpose; Simply, quickly and continuously improve efficiency and quality, shorten delivery time and reduce waste.

There are only three kinds in the world; Suggestion system (suitable for Japanese enterprises), BSC (suitable for European and American enterprises) and SCI (suitable for China enterprises).

With the extension of lean production to the whole product value stream, lean management is no longer limited to production management, but extends to R&D, design, technology, supply, equipment, sales and other levels.

Lean management characteristics

Lean production is also called JIT production.

The foundation of lean improvement is that all employees actively participate in improvement (such as TQM, TPM, One Stream, 5S, etc.). ).

Therefore, lean production has two characteristics;

1. Production organization; Production on time.

2. Production management; Ability to "ensure that all employees actively participate in improvement".

Namely; Lean management is a management method that can ensure all employees to actively participate in improvement.

Lean management in Japan

In 1960s, Taiichi Ono invented a method to improve efficiency, quality and reduce cost, which was later called lean improvement tool.

In promoting employee improvement, we rely on "top-down coercion" to promote it.

After a long time, employees resist and cope with improvement, and the improvement is small and persistent, and the effect is not ideal.

In 1970s, masaaki imai, the father of improved thinking and lean, invented the suggestion system.

The suggestion system enables employees to "constantly make suggestions" by changing their behavior habits.

Then, the relevant departments evaluated and implemented the suggestions, which resulted in many improvements.

Therefore, the amount of improvement is greatly improved, and a large number of improvements are automatically and continuously carried out.