Specifics of metallurgical industry for implementation of lean principles

Abstract

The ideal balance between innovating and eff ective fi nancing is provided by the Lean principles. The basic principle of Lean is to eliminate the wastes and to increase the effi ciency of production processes. The objective of this article is to defi ne the basic specifi cs of metallurgical production, to analyze the classical sources of wastes (Ohno’s seven wastes) from the point of view of the identifi ed specifi cs and to propose the priorities for their elimination in metallurgical production.