Question 3

In today's competitive world with its vast and rapid changes in scientific-technical areas and continuous challenges in economical-social systems, there are still many firms with a suitable position. These firms are flexible, pure, and customer oriented due to proper use of available facilities, suitable utilization of new sources for producing goods, and introduction of desirable services with suitable quality. Using philosophies like Lean manufacturing and employing tools such as technology, firms can establish an efficient and stable system to improve their weak points and protect their strong points (recoverable areas), enabling them to continuously identify their planning priorities and recover their recoverable areas by using corrective actions, resulting in gradually passing organizational transcendence levels and improving their efficiency

a) List and explain the primary goal of lean manufacturing.

b) Describe FOUR (4) principles of lean manufacturing company.

c) Briefly explain the THREE (3) information systems software commonly associated with lean manufacturing and world class companies.