“…The authors presented a case study of an SME manufacturing electrical power distribution and control equipment and demonstrated that the implementation of lean reduced flow time and increased service level with on-time delivery performance improving from 55 to 80 %. Similarly, Upadhye et al (2010) implemented kaizen, just in time (JIT), VSM, 5S, statistical quality control (SQC), preventive maintenance, total employee involvement, and single minute exchange of dies (SMED) in an SME and found reduced rejection rate, inventory, and cost and increased OEE, productivity, and ontime delivery. Vinodh et al (2011) recorded increased OEE and reduced machine downtime, rejection rate and inventory after implementing cellular manufacturing, TPM, 5S, total quality management (TQM), setup time reduction, and kanban lean practices in an Indian automotive valves manufacturer.…”