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manufacturers should be applied and technological innovation, which
will lead to achieving the higher level of automation of production.
Besides, the goal of automation is not, as is sometimes the case, mass
production of large series of products at the lower price, but the
creation of a flexible system, like lean production that can quickly
meet the specific requirements of customers and enables easy and fast
reorientation from one to the other production. Only this system allows
manufacturers to effectively adapt to market conditions which are no
longer filters out two collections a year, but six or seven a year.
Lean
production (Kaizen techniques originated) is a result of the analysis
conducted at the Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), which was performed for the U.S. automotive industry, with the
aim of finding a key success of Japanese manufacturers. Taiichi Ohno,
the director of the Japanese company, Toyota is the first practically
implement the concept of lean production. Lean manufacturing refers not
only to production, but also to all other functions within the business
systems, as well as relationships with manufacturers. Thus organized
business-production system through the centralization of
technical-economic function allows:
- reduce the wearing of capital,
- reduce costs,
- increase the adaptability of new products,
- increase of total profits and
- timely delivery of products known buyer.
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