Lean Development In The Application Of Auto Connector Company

Lean thinking is one of the highly evolved methods of managing an enterprise toimprove the productivity, efficiency and quality of its products or services. In the pastfew years, Regarding the study of lean thinking and promote are more and more widely useto the automotive and other manufacturing industries, the training through internal andexternal, on-site implementation, industry communication forms, lean production havealready used very popular in the manufacture company. However, many problemshappened in Lean production, the root causes are not in manufacture process but indevelopment process. For example: Unreasonable product structure, Products are notsuitable for manufacturing, improper design material selection, and so on。Therefore, themost important part of product development process is to implement lean development。Lean Development is the advance party of Lean enterprise, is the determining factor ofsuccess of enterprises. So, Lean development is the first step for the lean enterprise toimplement "lean production".This thesis takes Delphi as example, provide the system analysis on the whole valueof development, try to find the key wastes during the whole product development cycle,such as:Over development; waiting; repeat development; energy waste, combined withthe principles of leaning thinking: continuous of value flow, and take time, pull, continuedimprovement. Provide the detail improve methods and the find the ways to implement themethods of the main problems from the development process. The thesis takes the actualcase of the company to verify the analysis result. With China become the No.1in theworld’s automobile production and sales for four consecutive years, the demand for autoparts are increased accordingly, Auto Connector as an important automotive electrical andelectronic transmission parts, facing crucial opportunities and challenges.Now, more and more enterprises enter the automotive connector industry, increasedcompetition in the industry, the car’s environmental, safety and price requirements hasgradually become more rational to consumer. Innovation, technological improvements,costs become the key points of automotive connector business. Thus, the import of lean development can significantly improve the reliability of a development success rate,shorten product development cycles, reduce product development and manufacturing costs,improve quality, and enhance the product. Meanwhile, the author hopes the results of thisstudy can provide a valuable reference and experience to domestic automotive connectorenterprise.