More Industrial Engineering Studies on Lean Manufacturing Systems

Yash Dave and Nagendra Sohani in the paper "The Journey of Lean Manufacturing: Literature Review" published in Udyog Pragati, April-June 2011, Pp.22-34, stated that lean manufacturing term was coined by MIT researchers to describe the collection of efficiency improvements that Toyota Motors adopted. Because of its origin at Toyota Motors the same collection of improvement has also been called teh "Toyoto Production System."

Industrial engineering provided a great boost to productivity of the production systems in the early two decade of the 20th century. Management thinkers like Peter Drucker acknowledge the contribution of Taylor in developing differential wage plans, means of identifying better methods at elements level, time study to estimate task times, scientific study manual as well as machine methods etc. Industrial engineering once again made a great contribution to the manufacturing systems by coming up with SMED and the resultant lean manufacturing system.

Industrial engineers are continuing the task by doing further studies on lean manufacturing systems.

___________________________

• An Industrial Engineering Evaluation and Enhancement of Value Stream Mapping
  • Value Stream Mapping from an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
  • Value Network Mapping (VNM): Visualization and Analysis of Multiple Flows in Value Stream Maps

Value Stream Mapping: A Model for Quantification of Value

• Cost Model for Value Stream Mapping

Dynamic Performance Evaluation of Value Stream Maps

A Study Guide on Bottleneck Scheduling using Theory Of Constraints

Source: http://www-iwse.eng.ohio-state.edu/ISEFACULTY/IRANI/Industrial%20Engineering%20Studies%20on%20Lean%20Manufacturing.htm

____________________________ 

APPLICATION OF LEAN MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES FOR THE DESIGN OF
THE AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY LINE
by
Victoria Elena Gastelum

Submitted to the Sloan School of Management and the Department of Mechanical Engineering in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degrees of
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, June 2002
http://lean.mit.edu/downloads/download-document/137-application-of-lean-manufacturing-techniques-for-the-design-of-the-aircraft-assembly-line.html

____________________________

Lean Systems - MIT Theses

http://lean.mit.edu/downloads/2002-theses/view-category.html