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Shyam Lal Sharma, Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida , UP; Prashant Mudgal ,Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida , UP; Amit Kumar Jha ,Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida , UP; Ashok Kumar ,Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida , UP; Govind Kumar Singh ,Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida , UP

Lean manufacturing is the manufacturing philosophy and the system that was given by the Toyota, Japan and now the many of the manufacturers are using these techniques in industries. “Lean is simply a systematic technique or approach to identify and eliminating the waste through the continuous improvement by flowing the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of the perfections. The main aim is to eliminate the wastages in every area of the production including the customer relations and the product design and suppliers”. Lean tools and approach are very much popular in the automobile component manufacturing which is improving the growth initiatives in the automobile industry in last two decades. In automobile these lean tools like JIST,5S, Six Sigma, FIFO, LIFO, Continuous Improvement, JIS, Kanban processes also helps in the rapid development and growth in assembly line and overall production and growth specially in automobile sector. Nowadays almost 70% to 80% improvement in most of industrial growth is due to the approach of lean manufacturing.