<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this paper there were presented some issues connected with Lean concept in improving of production processes. The research was conducted on the example of production enterprises that function in metal industry. The enterprises for the research were chosen purposefully, because of two reasons - the possibility to obtain information on the researched area and the assumption that these enterprises use the lean concept instruments. The questionnaire was the research tool. The goal of the research was to examine, what are the most expected advantages from implementing of lean concept methods, and what were the real advantages, that occurred in production system of researched enterprises. The authors presented the quantitative results of the study and carried out an analysis of the response in the form of a matrix. The developed matrix extended the knowledge about the distribution of observed benefits. It enables to indicate which advantages occurred in the enterprises expecting and not expecting some benefits.</p></abstract>

In this paper there were presented some issues connected with Lean concept in improving of production processes. The research was conducted on the example of production enterprises that function in metal industry. The enterprises for the research were chosen purposefully, because of two reasons - the possibility to obtain information on the researched area and the assumption that these enterprises use the lean concept instruments. The questionnaire was the research tool. The goal of the research was to examine, what are the most expected advantages from implementing of lean concept methods, and what were the real advantages, that occurred in production system of researched enterprises. The authors presented the quantitative results of the study and carried out an analysis of the response in the form of a matrix. The developed matrix extended the knowledge about the distribution of observed benefits. It enables to indicate which advantages occurred in the enterprises expecting and not expecting some benefits.

Lean Concept in Metal Enterprises - Verification of Benefits

Conference Quality Production Improvement – CQPI

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In this paper there were presented some issues connected with Lean concept in improving of production processes. The research was conducted on the example of...

Lean Concept in Metal Enterprises - Verification of Benefits

Published Online: Oct 08, 2019

Page range: 63 - 68

Received: Apr 26, 2019

Accepted: May 20, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cqpi-2019-0009

Keywords
management, quality, lean management

© 2019 Marta Daroń et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Lean Concept in Metal Enterprises - Verification of Benefits

Published Online: Oct 08, 2019

Page range: 63 - 68

Received: Apr 26, 2019

Accepted: May 20, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cqpi-2019-0009

Keywordsmanagement, quality, lean management

© 2019 Marta Daroń et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
management, quality, lean management