Real-Time Monitoring System to Lean Manufacturing

Abstract

Future of the manufacturing industry is the combination of lean and cloud manufacturing which is a promising paradigm for next-generation manufacturing system. Lean practice is one of the best methods used by the manufactures around the world to enhance their competitiveness. It is believed that lean practice will result in reducing waste and control the essential processes related to the production. Even though lean manufacturing system is very reliable and trustworthy concept in large scale industries but still there are some flaws and challenges faced by SMEs industries to make it run successfully. To overcome these challenges and problems, we will rely on the cloud manufacturing concept while applying lean manufacturing methodology. Cloud platform will have a potential to collect the real-time production monitoring and will have a very close look at the inventory stock so that next order for raw material could be placed whenever it is required. With the combination of lean and cloud manufacturing, the new approach will provide us with a very flexible approach towards the production and will keep monitoring the scheduling the dispatching of the finished product as per the market requirement. In this paper, discuss a case study based on the cloud manufacturing and lean manufacturing system together to see how it will benefit and can be used to enhance productively in SMEs industry. With this combination of cloud and lean manufacturing and with the help of electronics system in it a partial automation system was established.