REVIEW ON LEAN MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES

Lean manufacturing was developed for maximize the resource utilization through minimization of waste. Any industry whether manufacturing or service oriented to survive may ultimately depend on its ability to systematically and continuously respond to these changes for enhancing the product value. Therefore value adding process is necessary to achieve this perfection; hence implementing a lean manufacturing system is becoming a core competency for any type of organizations to sustain. The lean tools like Value Stream Mapping (VSM),Cellular Manufacturing (CM), U-line system, Line Balancing,Inventory control, Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Pull System, Kanban, Production Levelling etc is reviewed. In this paper, an attempt has to review lean techniques