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History of lean (page 1/7)-Before lean manufacturing
History of lean (page 1/7)-Before lean manufacturing | Lean manufacturing
A few things have quite changed since the birth of the industrial era.
Today, it is the customer who dictates the demand.
Before
that, industrial models as Ford’s one,
often taken as an example, could easily opt for mass production.
Ford’s
philosophy was then to reduce the costs by involving a maximum number
of
production means.
Since in
those years demand was higher than
supply, the notion of overproduction did not exist. Everything would be
naturally sold.
As mass
production was paying for production
means – even for the heavy and costly ones-, it allowed to
suggest low-cost
products to reach a large number of customers. This led to the democratisation
of the
automobile industry. But a few years were enough for
the Ford model to weaken. Other principles took over. In fact,
General Motors
(1920-1939) was the first to associate the notion of volume with the
one of
diversity. This principle, and then the inversion of the market rules,
led to
the decline of Ford in 1930. They did not have integrated this notion
of
diversity in their production process.
