Success and failure issues to lead lean manufacturing implementation

The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical account for the role of management in implementation of lean thinking in a lean manufacturing environment. This paper initiated with literature which introduce the lean manufacturing as the combination of directions and a culture which managers through the guidelines in implementations can achieve the benefits. Implicitly, the two basic line of lean manufacturing, ‘respect to the workforce’ and ‘waste elimination’ is introduced and how these factors can cause an effective leadership during implementations. In continue, it is described that how every companies use the benefits of lean tools in their conception with lean implementations, and what factors the managers involve with culture and leaderships issues. also, through the investigation implies that not only it is necessary to implement most of the technical tools but an organization’s culture needs transforming too. Furthermore, the alterations need to be implemented throughout an organization’s value chain. Lean has a major strategic significance, though its implementation procedure. General approach to the supplier base viewing lean as a set of tactics rather than embracing it as a philosophy, cause gaps in lean thinking and most failure and the less number of contribution in success.

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Lean management ، success and fail factors ، lean manufacturing