A Review of Optimization Techniques Implementation in Production Industries

Implementation of lean is necessary for high-value manufacturing and is complementary to strategic decision making regarding manufacture. However lean can be difficult to implement in specific organizations. One of the difficulties is deciding which of the many lean tools to apply and when to apply them. A complicating factor is change management. Lean implementation is a transformational process and needs to support organizational development alongside process improvement. We develop a method based on risk management to identify which lean tools are most appropriate for a specific organizational setting. This permits the situational and contingency variables to be accommodated in the lean transformation. The method is demonstrated by application to a small manufacturing organization with a high-variety low-volume business model. The unreasonable facility layout of a production line directly or indirectly leads to low production efficiency is ver y common in Chinese manufacturing workshops, facility lean layout system of a production line is researched and designed. By analyzing the influencing factors of the facility layout system, optimization objectives and constraint conditions of facility layout system are summarized. A function model and a design structure model of the studied lean facility layout system are built. Based on the in-depth analyses of the mathematical model designed to denote the layout optimization design of a production line, a prototype lean facility layout system of a production line is developed..