Lean strategy. A study and lean application report in OMET s.r.l.

This paper centers on a study in Lean strategy concerned about the application cases in OMET s.r.l.(abbreviation as OMET). This thesis deeply discusses about the concepts of Lean thinking and the essence in application. A comparison between conventional production ideas with Lean strategy will be told. Furthermore, this thesis will concentrate on the methods to solve the inventory problem of OMET with the aim of lean tools, like value stream map, KANBAN and so on. New relationship between OMET and its suppliers will be introduced and zero-defect of quality management will be presented as some side impacts on the inventory controlling. Also the details on the way to combine the theoretical principles with OMET's real production situation and stock management will be studied and true cases in OMET for this will be analyzed. In the end a prospect of the continuous development of lean ideas and efforts for JIT in the company will be demonstrated and also some of the achievements from the lean application obtained during this thesis period will be analyzed.