Table 5 A summary of lean tools used by the two case study SMEs
Firm identifier | Lean tools used during the SME operations | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capacity planning | Quality circles | Lean Culture | Pull approach | Lean supply chain management | Just-In-Time (JIT) | Inventory reduction | Buffer level | 5S | Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) | Cellular Manufacturing | Value stream mapping | Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) | Kaizen | 5 why | PDCA | A3 reporting | SWOT | Lean flow | |
FA | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
FB | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||