The Application of Lean Management in Power Engineering Projects

Abstract:

In today's world, lean management thinking has been applied in many different industries, especially in manufacturing, setting off a wave of lean thinking transformation and achieving a significant effect, but it seldom used in the service sector. The power industry is the basic industry of the people's livelihood, with the expansion of the electricity market and the deepening of the power system revolution, the monopoly of the power industry is gradually being broken, the competition between power companies becomes more and more intense, so the original management model has been unable to adapt to market’s changes and demands, hence it is the urgent affair to adopt a new scientific management model. This paper will apply lean management thinking into the power projects, and study the actual benefits which lean management model brings to the enterprise.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1042)
• Pages: 309-315
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1042.309
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Wei Li*, Ming Yuan Ma
• Keywords: Benefits, Electricity Market, Lean Management, Management Model

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