Lean production

Question 1

What is lean production?

Answer 1

Lean production is a Japanese approach to management that focuses on cutting costs,
minimizes waste and ensuring quality

Question 2

What does lean production do?

Answer 2

This approach sets out to cut out all activities that do not add value to the
production process, such as holding of stock, repairing faulty product and unnecessary
movement of people and product around the plant.

Question 3

What is Kaizen?

Answer 3

Kaizen is defined as a continuous effort by each and every employee (from the CEO to
field staff) to ensure improvement of all processes and systems of a particular
organization.
Kaizen means “continuous improvement of processes and functions of an organization
through change”

Question 4

What is Just In Time inventory control?

Answer 4

Just-in-time or JIT is a production method whose focus is on reducing or virtually eliminating
the need to hold inventories of raw materials or components and on reducing work-in progress and inventories of the finished product.