A Review of Lean Assessment in Jordanian Organizations

International markets driven forces are changing continuously toward the needs of industrial companies to gain a competitive edge in such a market. Therefore, improving company's products, processes and practices is no longer auxiliary. Lean production implies many techniques that consolidate work tasks with minimum waste resulting in greatly reduced wait time, queue time, and other delays. Lean production can be mapped into many impact areas. One of these areas is Manufacturing Equipment and Technology (MET). Lean practices in such impact area are classified into six lean practices namely, specific equipment configurations, total preventive maintenance, visual control, new equipment/ technologies, production process reengineering, and shared vision of perfection. This study is to investigate the implementation level of these six practices in the MET are of Jordanian industries. Questionnaire has been designed according to five-point Likert scale. A pilot study was conducted for 25 companies and experts review to validate the questionnaire.

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Lecturer at Mechanical Engineering in Al-Zaytoonah University. Holding Master degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Jordan.