Study On The Application Of IE And Lean Production In Decline Phase Of Product

Along with develop of society and economic in the century, diversification and individuation is increasingly the important characters of market orientation, because society reformation. The mass production model can not supply enough customers'demand of special segmental market. So the new production model, Lean, is the fittest model for current environment of market. Further more, it has a dynamic function of continual self-improvement, which means the production is pulled by on time demand, and all potential issues will be bring out through the method of smaller work lot and decreasing in process inventory. So the production system will be perfectly with flexibility.For new factories, it is easily to use lean at the setup beginning then can gain the market competition. But for many companies, it is very important that how to use the advanced model, lean, to restructure the production and achieve more value and profit.This article analyzed the significant characters in product life cycles, lean production and basic IE's concepts and applications, emphatically analyzed the problems of product in decline phase, and put forward the solution for the specifically products, how to convert the production model from mass to lean, then earn more revenue and profit.