Study On Lean Production System Of KM Company

Lean production is the theory of advanced production, it was summed up on the basis of automative industry, mass production method and Toyota production system. It tends to eliminate waste as the core, respect for humanity, adhere to continuous improvement, seeks to implement in the mass production of multi-variety and low-cost production of high quality products.It represents the direction of development of modern manufacturing industry, known as "production standard in the manufacturing sector of21century".Current manufacturing enterprises in China face a dire situation. International markets after the bank crisis are bad, and the effects on issues such as the crisis in Europe, demand slump, trade protectionism prevalent, Western countries force continued depreciation of the Renminbi; Downward trend evident in the domestic economy, Rising labour costs, financing difficulties, and less orders; And a lot of obsolete equipment in manufacturing enterprises, backward technology, low labour productivity,etc.A number of factors lead to inefficiency in considerable part of manufacturing enterprises under the current situation. How to absorb advanced management ideas and methods, introduce new technology and new equipment, reduce product cost, improve market competitiveness and enterprise efficiency, that must be one of the major issues faced by manufacturing enterprise.KM is a enterprise to produce stainless steel products,is one of labor-intersive enterprises, main business is the design, production and sales of stainless steel products.main market is EU,and the annual turnover is about100million Yuan,has18years of production history. as the demand slump in the world after the bank crisis and the spread of European debt crisis,KM faces the severe challenge.how to get lower operating costs and product costs, higher customer satisfaction, better competitive advantage, will determine the future development of KM company.Under the current situation, lower product costs will be the greatest competitive advantage. KM applys lean production system, Firstly needs to analyze how the theory can be combined with the actual situation and characteristics of production in KM company; And then translate into its own operational system. Furthermore, KM needs to change the ideology and train employees to accept and strongly support the implementation of lean production system, a long run. Study on application of literature, field research, system analysis and case studies of a variety of methods, Author finds out the problems from KM company’s current production system, analyses the causes of problems, aiming at increament of Opetation proftis and strength of market competitiveness,on the basis of3principals,elimination of waste, respect of staffs, continuous improvement, to make the design of lean production system,including:optimization of production lines, elimination of waste, total quality management, improvement of purchasing and storage,total productive eaintenance,innovation,staff training, and so on.And then based on the above design, for each issue, following the principles of lean thinking, to promote the implement of lean production system in KM company,settle the problems that exists in production system,try to play a best effect of lean production, and to enhance the market competitiveness and improve the operational effectiveness of KM compaAt the last part of thesis, to sum up the results of implementing the lean production system in KM, point out that lean production system for industry and other manufacturing enterprises has significance in improving competitiveness and efficiency. And make recommendations for KM to implement the lean productin system in the future.