Advantages and Disadvantages of the Lean Production Process

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: very good, , language: English, abstract: Cynthia Fanning stated, "e;To be competitive, we have to look for every opportunity to improve efficiencies and productivity while increasing quality. Lean manufacturing principles have improved every aspect of our processes (Wheeler, C., 2016)."e; The chapters presented next give a definition of lean manufacturing and how Jaguar implemented the lean manufacturing process in its production. Those two chapters are followed by real-world examples that succeed and fail by applying lean methods to their business. The paper concludes with a personal and professional takeaway based on the reviewed case study about Jaguar. The aim of this work is to give an overview of lean manufacturing.