National Experience in Scientific Production Organization and Opportunities of its Application from the Standpoint of Lean Manufacturing

Purpose: the article presents the results of a comparative study of the achievements of the leading Russian scientific schools, which stood at the origins of the scientific production organization. The main purpose of the study is to find out which theories of national scientific schools in the field of production organization appeared at the beginning of the 20th century have remained relevant until now and can be developed in our days. First of all, these theories were considered from the standpoint of the lean manufacturing concept usage, not only for material products, but for information products as well.Methods: the analysis and synthesis, as well as the method of analogies were used as the main methods of this scientific research.Results: the conducted research proved that almost in all researches of the production organization in 20–30 years of XX century, as a rule, the vector of influence of human resources on the manufacturing process was implicitly present. However, at that time, the dominant role was played by the production of material economic products with a small part of the intellectual component in their structure (compared to nowadays), while today the intellectual component became incomparably larger. The result of the study was also a modified version of the Japanese concept of «4M» on the role of materials, machine, man and method of labor management with the addition of the 5th «M» (mentality – a mental state), which allows to evaluate also the intellectual and creative (intangible) component of the production process. For the first time it is offered to consider and investigate possibilities of use in practice of human resources management the concept of "intellectual and creative attitudes" as the factor defining the degree of predisposition of the worker to use his intellectual potential through the required level of the creative abilities at production of information economy products.Conclusions and Relevance: it was shown that the subject of the in-depth research is not material products, but the information economy products, in the production of which the logic of providing the necessary information becomes crucial, taking into consideration the formation of confiding relations between the management of enterprises and their employees.