Applying Lean Manufacturing Principles & Tools to Laboratory Operations

2009-01-1191

04/20/2009

Event
SAE World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Lean manufacturing has greatly changed the way many companies produce products. Lessons learned in lean manufacturing are being applied to many non-manufacturing situations including design, logistics, and transactional processes. Such tools can be applied to metallurgical laboratories which support daily production or design and development. Four key principles of lean management and nine tools are presented with specific examples demonstrating how these lean tools can be successfully applied to a metallurgical laboratory operations. These principles and tools have been successfully implemented by the author in a captive metallurgical laboratory over the last year resulting in reduced cycle time, higher productivity, less variation in analysis methods allowing for direct comparison of data over time, and improved quality.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-1191
Pages
9
Citation
Vinarcik, E., "Applying Lean Manufacturing Principles & Tools to Laboratory Operations," SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-1191, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-1191.
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Publisher
Published
Apr 20, 2009
Product Code
2009-01-1191
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English