| Author |
Oladipupo Olaitan |
| Abstract |
Placeholder |
| Keywords |
Placeholder |
| Anonym |
Ja |
| Company name |
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| Company address |
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| Company country |
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| Line of business |
Furniture And Fixtures |
| (Approx.) yearly turnover |
25.000.000€ - 50.000.000€ |
| Number of employees |
1.000 - 5.000 |
| Percentage temporary workers |
0% - 5% |
| Principal range of products |
Standard products, plus variants |
| Major product quantities |
Small batch production |
| Principal type of production organisation |
Line production |
| Who was the trigger / customer of the project? |
Project Manager |
| Project Type |
Introduction of lean production control |
| Lean is already fully established |
Not really true |
| What was or is the main trigger to implement Lean? |
Reduction in lead time |
| Case Study |
- Too big material buffer stocks
- Low visibility and traceability
between operations
- Most of existing improvement efforts
have focussed on process technology innovations
- Experience with Lean for
production control but significant room remained for achieving its full
benefits
- High
motivation (at all levels) to apply other changes to get the best out of
process technology improvements
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