Lean Production as Mechanism of Enterprise Management

Abstract

Maintenance of lean production is a system that consists of tools (methods) aimed at creating and incrementing values, struggle with losses, optimization of enterprise work, cutting prime cost and raising quality of products, development of responsible attitude of personnel to changes. For any industrial enterprise it is important how to minimize losses and increase value of products. Today lean production is not only a managerial practice but also a subject of academic research. In spite of a long history lean production due to its modification capacity is considered an innovation concept. The article characterized lean production as a managerial mechanism of the enterprise, showed reasons for managerial problem arising and provided ways of their resolving. Special attention is paid to methodology of lean enterprise mechanism and principles of maintaining its work. The authors showed stages of starting-up the mechanism of lean production at the enterprise. According to the authors, problems of raising quality and cutting prime cost of products can be solved with lean production as a managerial mechanism. The present research can help elaborate the program of maintaining the work of lean production mechanism and use the algorithm at the enterprise.

Keywords

• prime cost
• managerial mechanism
• business-processes
• strategic management
• outward environment
• internal environment