Lean Manufacturing System: Optimization in Small and Medium Enterprises

Implementation of lean helps many organizations to improve their productivity andefficiency; on the other hand, numerous organizations have failed to benefit from lean philosophy. The case of not achieving the expected results of implementing lean is not because of limitation of lean to specific organizations type; however, themisconception of the lean philosophy is amongst the main failure¿s factors. The lean thinking was originated in the automobile manufacturing sector and it widely spreads within the discrete industries; however, the today¿s challenge is to implement the lean philosophy within SMEs and different organizations regardless to the type, size, or mission of the applicant organization. This has motivated the undertaken research to propose a standard generic transition steps which can be adopted by different organizations in order to become lean.The Submersible pump manufacturer is ideal example of the SMEs sector and it will be used to demonstrate that the lean philosophy is applicable to all different organization types.