Authors : Aman Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Dinesh Chawala and Nilesh Ugemuge
Abstract: Education sector is facing a lot of challenges and among many making balance between delivering quality education and involvement of cost is a big issue. This type of challenge analogues to manufacturing industry has already been faced in the recent past. To overcome the challenges various organization started practicing Lean Six Sigma and 5S technology and these practices had shown very good results. These practices can also be followed in the education sector. In this study, we first discuss various challenges in the education sector including education modules and teaching methodologies. We then illustrate Lean creation, Six Sigma and 5S technology. Further, we present literature review to suggest that how these practices have helped the various universities to improve teaching skills, administrative process based on the existing available resources.
Aman Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Dinesh Chawala and Nilesh Ugemuge, 2017. An Overview of Lean and Education Sector. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 7514-7519.