IDENTIFICATION OF LEAN FEATURES IN THE DESIGN OF THE MANUFACTURING UNIT

The subject of interest of hereby article is the identification of features related to "the leanness" of production units. In the context of the above, research was undertaken, the main purpose of which was to verify wide list of features which are available in many publications. To achieve this purpose, surveys were conducted among Lean Production experts. The research allowed the authors to define the managers' preference for features of "the leanness" of production units and they significance. On the basis of managers' preferences, KPIs were also selected, to assess preferred features of "the leanness". The rank of this KPIs may be the basis for the evaluation of lean production units project variants (using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method).