The effectiveness of work groups in lean manufacturing and an application in Ford-Otosan İnönü plant

iiiABSTRACTLean manufacturing is one of the last levels of the highly developing manufacturingindustry started from the beginning of 1900s. Lean manufacturing with a short explanation is;distinguishing of the waste and value, decreasing or if possible zeroing the waste and makingthe value more worthy. Work groups as a subject, is one of the most important fundamentalsof the application side of lean manufacturing. In this study, the possible factors that can haveeffect on the effectiveness of the work groups are investigated on some selected work groupsto understand to which extend they have effect, also making correspondence with the leanmanufacturing metrics to show the firms that are working on or trying to apply leanmanufacturing principles as an one example. In this study, the reader will find; the theoreticalexplanation of lean manufacturing, again theoretical explanations of groups and work groups,in the third section which includes the application study, the application of all the teoriticalstaff that are explaned in the previous sections in Ford-Otosan Inonu Plant on the selected 6lean manufacturing work groups.