Lean Philosophy to Promote Quality Initiatives in Engineering Education

Abstract

This paper deals with the implementation of lean philosophy for continuous improvement and development in technical education. Lean management is a highly disciplined process that has helped businesses and services to increase productivity through process design and the elimination of wasted activities and tasks. Nowadays. efforts are being carried out to implement lean management in educational institutions to help them in attaining excellence. This paper provides new direction for implementation of different lean tools in improving the quality of technical education and the expected benefits that can be derived through it.