Lean production as a factor of competitiveness of a business entity

The article describes the essence of lean manufacturing technology and the main tools for its implementation and implementation. Through the use of the simplest “lean manufacturing” toolkit, the management of enterprises forms a vision of a specific result for employees, a change in conscious thinking, which in turn, in the future, will allow integrating into the production and management process more complex elements of “lean manufacturing”. It should be noted that a separate tool "lean production is responsible for solving a specific task or part of it, while their integrated practice ensures the achievement of planned indicators. A high level of performance in various areas of business is determined by the introduction of lean technology into various fields of activity. The proposed management model the introduction of "lean production" takes into account the fundamental basis of the concept, taking into account the situational conditions, in which the subject of management operates...