Complete 5 pages APA formatted article: Manufacturing Systems and Quality. In attaining efficiency, there are considerations of lean management, just in time production, total quality management, and total productive maintenance. Total quality management involves altering processes in the manufacturing process to ensure that there is meeting the goals of the organization. Eight pillars in total productive maintenance ensure effectiveness in the production process. The pillars are mainly focused on preventive and proactive techniques that are used for improving the liability of equipment (Wilson, 2010).

Lean manufacture considers several factors to bring efficiency. The lean manufacturing principle focuses on the consumer. Through consideration, all that is needed by a consumer is value. Value in manufacture occurs when there is the creation of goods and services that perceives highly as compared to their costs (Charantimath, 2011). In manufacture, lean principles ensure efficiency through the determination of the wants of the consumers and how there can be provided better services, cheaper services, and being time convenient.

Lean manufacturing brings about efficiency as there is the consideration of how work gets done in the manufacturing process. There are always several assumptions that are made on how work is done in the manufacturing process. This leads to a lack of reflection on the exact activities that are carried out in the manufacturing process (McCormick, 2002). In dealing with this to ensure efficiency, lean manufacture uses those that are not in the manufacturing process to observe the steps in the manufacturing process to ensure that the processes satisfy the needs of consumers (Naidu, Babu & Rajendra, 2006).

Lean management improves efficiency through the removal of inefficiencies and wastes. When there is the removal of the inefficiencies, the manufacturing process will be that which ensures that the process meets its goal of satisfaction of the wants of the consumers.