Specifics of metallurgical industry for implementation of lean principles

Abstract

The ideal balance between innovating and effective financing is provided by the Lean principles. The basic principle of Lean is to eliminate the wastes and to increase the efficiency of production processes. The objective of this article is to define the basic specifics of metallurgical production, to analyze the classical sources of wastes (Ohno’s seven wastes) from the point of view of the identified specifics and to propose the priorities for their elimination in metallurgical production.

Keywords

• continuous improvement
• Lean
• Ohno’s seven wastes
• metallurgy