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    DEVELOPMENT OF LEAN CULTURE ASSESSMENT FOR LEAN MANUFACTURING IMPLEMENTATION
    (Military Technical College, 2014) A. Salah, S.; Sobhi, N.; Ali, N.
    Many companies are looking at lean manufacturing for helping them to remain competitive; Lean manufacturing is however more than just a set of tools and techniques as it also requires a change in the organizational culture of the company involved to be a lean culture. The relationship between an organization’s culture and its ability to implement lean six sigma technique is a long-term effort. As a first step, the purpose of this paper is to offer the results of a survey conducted to measure the lean cultures criteria in the manufacturing company which is conducive for successful implementation of lean six sigma methodologies. The method used for this paper study was the questionnaire method using a lean culture assessment questionnaire that has been designed by the researcher that was aligned to the important principles based on Toyota Way model. This study indicates that the existing organizational culture of radiator Production Company is relatively conducive to the implementation of lean principles within the company.
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    Investigation of critical lean culture criteria frame work for lean transformation
    (Military Technical College, 2014) A. Salah, S.; Sobhi, N.; Ali, N.
    ABSTRACTMany manufacturing companies when implementing lean manufacturing, they onlyemphasize on lean tools and techniques. They ignored the human factor or morespecific they failed to build the right culture. Hence, these companies could notobtain the full benefits of lean manufacturing implementation, and in fact, they arehaving difficulties sustaining the success attained. This paper provides a theoreticallean culture criteria framework for implementation of lean manufacturing. Thisframework builds on the literature review that involves major sources of leanmanufacturing community and also based on Toyota way culture. This studyinvestigates how the lean culture influences the implementation of lean system in allorganizations. The study further explains how an organization can benefit fromassessment of their culture by adopting lean culture framework. It is found from theliterature review that a number of factors need to be taken into account in order toimplement a successful lean system. The framework would enable the organizationsto assess their internal culture before implementing lean methodology.