The Research On Kaizen Drive Mechanism And Lean Culture Of Manufacturing Enterprise

Manufacturing enterprises may face the culture problem or lacking the driven mechanism when introducing lean manufacturing system. This paper made research on how to solve those problems. The paper analyzed the culture system of a excellent lean enterprise such as Toyota company, and constructed driven mechanism for management level, team level and employee level.Enterprises tend to focus on learning lean technical system by the guidance of lean expert from consulting firms. They set up internal teams to push lean project in the hope of constructing JIT way in a short time. According to this situation, this paper proposed lean culture system. The system analyzed the proper way employees should accept, which included physical level, concept level and basic assumption level.This paper analyzed the contribution of lean kaizen to the improvement of enterprise. It described the impact of kaizen and creation, which are two different improving methods for enterprises. Lean enterprises should realize that kaizen is the source of improvement. The essence of kaizen is observing and solving problems. The paper pointed that management should balance the result and process during each kaizen activity.During the lean project implementation, if enterprise did not consider all related driven factors or could not coordinate them well, kaizen activity may be weaken by internal conflicts. So, this paper analyzed driven mechanism for lean project in three levels. It proposed management driven mechanism in the view of process, and analyzed 5 strengths with ANP method quantitatively. It proposed management driven mechanism in the view of result by three steps. It also proposed driven mechanism of task level and employee level. Those driven mechanism can help manufacturing enterprises consolidate the implementation of lean project.