A Contrast: VSM, JIT, and MRP-II

Abstract

Lean Approach, now a days is gaining its acceptance in Industry, especially the Automotive Industry. The manufacturing management is eager to opt for the better alternatives for higher productions. The principles of Lean Production are more or less similar, but the procedures followed are different in exponential. The Automotive Sector is working with many form of Lean, namely, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Just-in-Time (JIT), Material Resource Planning (MRP), Product Flow analysis (PFA), Kaizen, Total Quality Management (TQM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), etc., and many more. The initiative taken by the giant Toyota, well known as, Toyota Production System (TPS), has sparked the requisite of Standardization. The contrast of the forms of lean approach, are only to highlight the process and procedure objectives of VSM, JIT and MRP. The implementation plans of the all VSM, JIT and MRP, are reviewed in this paper.