LEAN MANAGEMENT

     Good morning community, greetings and fraternal hugs. Welcome to your place of meeting Mejoracontinua. At this moment lets discuss a very important and useful theme in each one of our projects, this is Lean Management. Let's go to begin!

     The Lean Management was to known at 1970, through an investigation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this investigation, The United States of America wanted to know the motives that caused the Japanese automobile industry to surpass its industries. In a first step, it was thought that the technological differences could be the causes. However, the studies showed that these were minimal, so the investigators were dismayed and when they conducted a deeper analysis, they determined that the differentiating key factor was management practices or management. At this point, it is where the concept of Lean Management is introduced, which was developed in the book: the Machine That Changed the world, written by James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos.

     The term lean means fat-free, slender. This management culture owes its name to focus on improving the productivity of a company by reducing or eliminating the activities of the process that do not generate value to customers (waste).

     Every production process has the following classification of activities:

1) Activities that generate value.

2) Activities that do not generate value but are necessary.

3) Activities that do not generate value and are not necessary.

     Traditional management seeks to improve its production times and maximize profits by improving its activities that add value to the process. However, as we see in the following image, and is the determinant factor in the study done, the greatest amount of time in the production process is occupied by activities that do not generate value. Well, the Japanese saw this phenomenon and "EUREKA", developed management tools that allow do it.

• James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos. (1990). The Machine that changed the World: The story of Lean Production. (1a ed.) Harper Perennial N.Y