| Lean production is one kind of new production management mode, where its core includes pull by customer demand, waste elimination and continuous improvement, and which help the company gain with lowest investment and help the operation get significant improvement. Lean production stresses the requirement of time and value from the customer, organizes manufacturing activities bringing customer increment and shortens production lead time via a scientific manufacturing system, from which company capability to adapt for changing market could be increased. The key of lean production is to eliminate all the ineffective activities and waste. The goal of lean production is to chase excellence and secure enterprise advantage by continuous cost and scrap reduction, quality and flexibility improvement, zero stock management and so on.As one of common industry modes of electrical manufacturing, the characteristic of Electronic Manufacturing Service is quick response and low inventory. The case studies the process flow of product D from project E of company F with the methodology of Value Stream Mapping. The VSM help to enhance the order response and decrease the inventory stock through production layout adjustment, process improvement and WIP inventory reduction, which achieve satisfaction both from customer and company F. |
