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=== Introduction to Lean === | === Introduction to Lean === | ||
| − | Lean has been adopted by manufacturing companies in the past thirty-years. The philosophy is from the Japanese automotive industry and was introduced in the very late 1930’s as the Toyota Production System (known as TPS). Lean is basically about creating value for the costumer by eliminating waste and the principles seeks to have an effective and efficient production. The TPS system was in the beginning dedicated to the manufacturing industry, but during the past years have lean been established as an overall optimization philosophy for all kind of business’. | + | Lean has been adopted by manufacturing companies in the past thirty-years. The philosophy is from the Japanese automotive industry and was introduced in the very late 1930’s as the Toyota Production System (known as TPS). Lean is basically about creating value for the costumer by eliminating waste and the principles seeks to have an effective and efficient production. The TPS system was in the beginning dedicated to the manufacturing industry, but during the past years have lean been established as an overall optimization philosophy for all kind of business’. <ref name="womack">{{cite book |
| − | The five principles of the philosophy: | + | |last=Womack |first=James P.|authorlink=James P. Womack |
| + | |author2=Daniel T. Jones |author3=Daniel Roos | ||
| + | |title=[[The Machine That Changed the World (book)|The Machine That Changed the World]] | ||
| + | |year=1990 | ||
| + | The five principles of the philosophy: | ||
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Revision as of 15:39, 23 September 2015
This article covers the basic principles of Lean Thinking, and describes which tools and techniques there are available in Project Management(Link). The purpose of the article is to give an overview of Lean Thinking and how to approach the Lean Tools in Project Management. The article contains a description of the background of Lean, the different Lean Thinking principles and tools, and how to approach Lean Thinking in Project Management. However Lean Thinking philosophy was originally described in the automotive industry, the topics will compare the originally philosophy of Lean and how to apply different Lean tools in Project Management. The two main topics in this article are Lean Thinking and Project Management and the definitions of these are:
The definition of "Lean Thinking": To maximize the customer value, while elimination waste. Create more value with fewer resources.[1].
The definition of Project Management: Planning, organize, motivate and control the resources to achieve a specific goal of a temporary project and within the specific criteria.[2]
The article is a combination of these two definitions and provides a clear picture of why these two topics are linked and why this is an interesting topic.
Background
Introduction to Lean
Lean has been adopted by manufacturing companies in the past thirty-years. The philosophy is from the Japanese automotive industry and was introduced in the very late 1930’s as the Toyota Production System (known as TPS). Lean is basically about creating value for the costumer by eliminating waste and the principles seeks to have an effective and efficient production. The TPS system was in the beginning dedicated to the manufacturing industry, but during the past years have lean been established as an overall optimization philosophy for all kind of business’. [3]
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