Review on Lean Manufacturing Elements in Manufacturing Industries: Implementation and Impact of Lean Manufacturing in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Abstract

Lean manufacturing is an area of interest for academicians, industrialists and practitionerssince it improves the competitiveness of manufacturing industries.In today’s competitive world,manufacturing industries are emerging at an incredible rate and performance enhancement becomes asignificant strategy to accomplish and sustain growth. In this aspect, identification of best practices toassess lean manufacturing is important.Theoriginal equipment manufacturers are making newlinecompulsions to their suppliers to continuously increase quality and to implement newline LeanManufacturing tools and techniques as per their volume of production.This newline has created newperspectives and pressure on the small and medium-sized newline enterprises for production of qualityproducts. Many quality concepts and tools are newline available and are used for quality improvements,such as Lean Manufacturing, Six newline Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, etc. newline Lean practices are therecent methods of managing the business and are based on newline the principles of waste managementwhile maximizing quality and flexibility.The newline main aim of the research is the development of LeanPractice Model for Small and newline Medium Scale Manufacturing Enterprises. In this paper we haveprsented a deep review on the development of Lean Practice Model for Small and newline Medium ScaleManufacturing Enterprises in the state of Gujarat, India.