摘要：Lean management represents a systematic approach used for identifying and eliminating waste and non-value
added activities from different industries, including the textile industry. Even if the lean manufacturing concept has
shown important results in continuous process industry, the textile industry represents a good area for
implementing this methodology targeting as a main objective the action of eliminating waste, thus reducing costs
and therefore, increasing productivity. Being a customer oriented process, the system has the ability to eliminate a
significant part of waste from the Romanian textile industry. As a result, this is an incipient study aimed to present
the benefits of implementing Lean Management in the Romanian textile industry, through its improvement tools, as
well as presenting a theoretical economic impact for a textile company. Also, taking into consideration that Lean
Management is not yet applied in the Romanian textile field, the study will present a part of the areas which would
need the Lean implementation, as well as further actions to be taken in order to improve productivity in textile
industry.
关键词：Textile and clothing industry; Lean Management; waste; productivity
