Analysis of lean production data in assembly processes

In today?s global environment, companies should improve their efficiency in order to maintain their positions in the market and assure their growth and progress. They have to use their sources efficiently and avoid waste to assure the efficiency increase. One way of providing this increase is Lean Production, which creates a radical change in both the management and production of the company. Lean production focuses on providing the most cost-effective and high-quality products on customers? demand. It also helps the design of processes by minimum waste and maximum flexibility.Electronic industry is one of the most rapidly growing industries in Turkey and has a high profit margin above the mean. The average product lifespan has shortened radically, and close competition forces companies to design, manufacture and market the products on a tight schedule. The actual production is subject to very ambitious goals. In addition to cost-efficiency and high-precision, ? exibility is a key factor, since the same machinery is used to manufacture slightly differing variants of the same product as well as a range of different product types.Although many products are manufactured by assembly production, there may be millions of parts in electronics assembly. This makes electronics assembly more complex and sophisticated. This study explains lean production in electronics industry with a successful case study and is a pioneer in design-for-assembly applications with a whole approach containing the lean design of processes, products and procedures.