The design of a holistic integration offers a way to companies, to identify the importance and the relationships between Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, pointing out the convergences and the organizational gains from the interaction between the Just in Time (JIT), Kanban, Poka-Yoke, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Kaizen and Toyota Productive Maintenance (TPM) with digital technologies. This integration proposal means the alignment of a lean production system according to the technological trends arising from Industry 4.0, demonstrating that the organizational goals can be achieved jointly by these two approaches. Therefore, the two philosophies, when applied together, can optimize company KPIs, pointing out a practical path to be followed by lean companies from different sectors that are looking to adapt to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Online Lecture with possible poll interactions and followup assignments

• Head of Operations/Plant/Production/Supply chain
• Head of Operational Excellence/Lean/TQM/TPM/TPS
• Production/Manufacturing/Application/Quality Engineers
• Academicians in Operations & Lean Manufacturing
• Research Scholars in Smart Manufacturing 4.0

Mr. A N Chandramouli, Industry Consultant and Board member at Starrag India

Mr. Chandramouli is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Trichy and Post Graduate in Management from IIMC. He superannuated as the MD of Starrag India, and is a Former Board Member. In this capacity, he set up a State of Art manufacturing facility and Technology center in Bangalore Aerospace Park and established the famous WMW brand of Horizontal Machining Centers with significant local content under the Make-In-India vision. Prior to Starrag, he was holding the position as CEO of Makino India. He set up a Vocational Training center at Makino to impart skills to CNC machine tool industry and its customers.