continual identification, reduction and if possible, elimination of waste.
Application of Lean is easier by application of the following principles of Lean Management.
Principles of lean management
- Specify value from customer point of view as per product family
- Identify all the steps in the value stream for each product family and eliminate whenever, wherever
possible those steps that do not create value - Make the value-creating steps occur in tight sequence; so the product will flow smoothly
towards the customer. - As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity.
- As value is specified, value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed, flow and pull are
introduced, begin the process again and continue it until a state of perfection is reached in which perfect
value is created with no waste.
