Application Research of Lean Thinking in the Birth Process of Product

The process of vehicle products birth for modern automobile manufacturing enterprises includes five stages: project planning, product development, production arrangement, trial production and mass production. Many of the outstanding companies applied lean thinking in the entire birth process of product to organically integrate people, processes, tools and techniques together, which gave the enterprises strong competitiveness and created significant value for customers and the society at the same time. The concepts, methods and ideas of lean thinking were proposed in some important application stages like product development, production arrangement and trial production on the basis of analyzing the status for the production process of an independent domestic automobile manufacturing enterprise. The results of practical case studies show: the implementation of lean thinking in the birth process of product has a positive effect on the realization of large-scale, low-cost and high-efficiency production. The experience on promoting the application of lean thinking in the birth process of product was shared.