Research on the five-stage method for Chinese enterprises to implement lean production

Since 1980s, more and more enterprises in Chinese Mainland have deployed lean production in consideration of its great success in other countries, but only a few of them became successful examples of lean production in Chinese Mainland. Although there are many reasons for the failure, the paper finds that the wrong doings of Chinese enterprises in implementing lean production is one of the main reasons; typically many of them want to build a Rome in a day. The paper proposes a five-stage method for Chinese enterprises to carry out lean production step by step including the tools configured for each stage. We hope the method will assist enterprises in Chinese mainland in deploying lean production successfully.