It means sophisticated, precise, beautiful, interest, efficient and so on. Lean production is timely manufacture, the eradication of failure, the elimination of all waste to zero defects, just-enter. It is put forward by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the "International Automobile plan" of research project. They have done a lot of investigation and comparison, the Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan that the production method is most suitable for a modern manufacturing enterprise production management organizations, known as lean production and lean production integrated with the mass production of single - Production of the advantages, and strive to achieve in the mass production of more varieties and high-quality products, low-cost production.

Lean Production characteristics:
Pull-on time of production
To the end-user demand for the production of the starting point. Stressed that the logistics balance the pursuit of zero inventory, the processing requirements of a process End of the parts can be immediately a process to the next.

Organizing production lines rely on a Kanban form. That is, from billboards to convey the demand, upward, the information (no limit the form, the key is able to transmit information). Production beat can be artificial intervention and control, but to ensure that the production balance (for each procedure, which is guaranteed to back the just-in-time supply processes). As a result of pull-type production, production planning and scheduling in essence, by the various production units to complete their own, do not use in concentrated form, but in the course of operations coordination between the production units is extremely necessary.
    
Total Quality Management

Emphasis on quality rather than is produced by the testing, production of quality management to ensure the quality of the final. In the course of production quality inspection and control procedures, to ensure that find questions in time To cultivate awareness of the quality of each employee in each procedure carried out when the detection and attention to quality control, quality assurance to detect problems. If found in the production process quality problems, according to the situation, you can immediately stop production until solve the problem, Thus there is no guarantee of the non-processed goods is invalid.

For the quality problems, the general organization of the technical and production staff as a group, in collaboration with, as soon as possible.

Team Work
Each employee at work is not only the implementation of the higher level of command. What is more important is actively involved in, a decision-making and decision-making role. Organization team is not entirely according to the principles of the organization to divide, but mainly based on business relationship breakdown. Team members emphasized more abilities; the requirements are more familiar with other team staff and ensure the smooth coordination of efforts. Team work by the team assessed the performance of the internal evaluation of the impact. (This is Japan's unique relationship between the personnel system more) team is the basic atmosphere of trust, to a long-term supervision and control oriented, and to avoid every step of the audit work, raise work efficiency. The team organization is changeable, for different things, the same person create a different team. People may belong to different teams.