TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AS THE BASIS PHILOSOPHY OF «LEAN PRODUCTION»

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of the “lean production” system implementation. By dynamic changes in the environment, local changes, often presenting a disordered and messy process, bring mostly often only a short-term effect. One of Decisive factors helping to increase the competitiveness of the company is the development and implementation of ”lean production”, allowing , without additional capital expenditures, to reduce costs and the cycle time as well as to significantly improve the quality of product and services.. The principle of the “lean production” system is the synthesis of the value of the final product emerging from the reduction of various costs, losses and waste in each area of the custom value creation.
Described are in detail necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring the continuity of innovation. In this case, the company is regarded as an open complex socio-technical system. Particular attention is given to overcoming the psychological problems encountered by staff in the implementation of innovations.
The continuity of the process – beginning with the vision, how the company head regards it , what kind of the solution idea he has , what is his intuition of the market development and farther to the engineer having the ability to transform the idea into drawings, to the worker able to transform the drawing into actual construct is the basis of the :”lean production” system at an enterprise.