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Literature Review

Whittle Engineering Company (WEC) is a manufacturing company based in the Midlands. Its core skills include die casting, precision machining, and assembly. WEC is a first tier supplier to the automotive industry, it supplies complete assemblies for the OEMs and components for the Aftermarket sector. The company has been in business for 40 years and currently employ 200 people. Since 2000 the company have lost 2 major orders to overseas competitors. 20 % of their direct workers have been made compulsory redundant and there may be a loss of a further 25% of workers in the next 12 months if they continue as they are. WEC's manufacturing facility is currently producing to mass production principles.

The purpose of Lean Production System to identify and eliminate processes resources that do not add value to the product. Eliminating waste in production, however, can only be achieved through the efforts of the production. It requires changes in other functions such as design, materials of the section, marketing, etc. In the Whittle Engineering Company-wide integrated effort is needed to improve the process and reduce waste (Upadhye et al., 2004). Paul and Suresh (1997) described that the computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), Total Quality Management (TQM) and Just In Time (JIT) three main areas of the world production class. These methods of improving cost, quality, delivery and flexibility. According to Hayes and Pisano (1994) flexibility or the ability to change depending on market demand is very important in a competitive market to support sustainable development. AS and Sushil (2004) described that flexibility can be achieved through knowledge intensiveness127 greater importance of human resources. Whittle Engineering Company (WEC)al flexibility to work out a large number of cultural workers, who face problems in the future unfolds.

Nationwide, many companies of various sizes in various industries, primarily in manufacturing and services, implement these lean production systems, and experts note that the tilt speed the adoption accelerates. Companies in the first place decided to participate in lean manufacturing for three reasons: to reduce production and resource requirements and costs, increase customer responsiveness, and improve the quality of products, which combine all to improve the Whittle Engineering Company (WEC)'s profits and enhance competitiveness. To achieve these improvements and associated reduction of waste, lean involves a fundamental paradigm shift from traditional "batch and queue" mass production to the product side, "one piece flow" pull production. While the "party line, and" involves the mass production of large batches in advance, based on potential or projected needs of clients, one-piece flow "system rebuilds industrial activities so that different types of processing steps are carried out in close proximity to each other in continuous flow.

Lean manufacturing system design issues

It was noted that, while Lean Manufacturing is to provide a sustainable competitive advantage for Whittle Engineering Company (WEC) that change and improvement strategies has not been successfully implemented in the Indian industry as a whole. Most of the published work provides substantial evidence of the implementation of LMS in the West, but India's very few ...