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Eliminating Muda (Waste) in Lean Management by Working Time Standardization
Author(s): Agnieszka Grzelczak and Karolina Werner-LewandowskaAgnieszka Grzelczak and Karolina Werner-Lewandowska
Process improvement is a constant search for opportunities to improve the processes in the daily operations of the company, and to enhance the relationships between processes. One of the concepts of continuous improvement is the Lean Management approach. Lean management is the way to achieve the perfect level of the organization through the gradual and ongoing, which is characteristic for continuous improvement approach, elimination of waste (“muda” in Japanese) and losses in all the aspects of business, and the integration of activities connected with the stream creating customer value. The approach to classification of wastes dominating in the literature comprises seven groups. The authors focused on just the last type of waste that is on the under-utilization of the potential of employees. However, according to the author’s interpretat.. Read More»
