Abstract

Since the 1980's, throughout the world, the industry continues to work hard to transition to lean production system. Lean production is a system that minimize the lead time between a customer order and the shipment of the goods with reducing the all forms of waste. It has many benefits such as less process waste, reduced lead time, less rework, financial savings, increased process understanding and reduced inventory. Lean thinking is based on the manufacturing process that focuses on delivering the value to the customer. In this study, lean production system and an application of kaizen for reducing the cycle time in a PVC film producer have been explained. http://dx.doi.org/10.17130/ijmeb.20162819844

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