In its quest to quit international market Russian enterprises are seeking new ways of competitive advantage. Competitive advantage can only be achieved by high quality and low costs. Quality - investment object, above all, the internal. Today as never before enterprises are key objectives: to improve profitability, the level of organization of production, the efficiency of business processes, reduce costs, improve competitiveness, customer satisfaction. The paper considers one of the options to improve the competitiveness of Russian enterprises based application of the concept of Lean Production. The purpose of the article - to identify methods and techniques for solving the priorities of Russian industrial enterprises. Provides a brief historical background of occurrence of the concept of "lean production". Analyzed different perspectives and approaches to the definition of "lean production". The results of analysis tools concept of "lean production" in terms of reducing the loss of seven types: excess production and inventory, unnecessary movement of material waiting and delays, over-treatment, excessive movement of the workers and the need for improvements and corrections. Identified tools of lean production, helps to reduce activities that do not add value to the product of the consumer: System 5S, Kaizen, the system TPM, Kanban, Andon, just-in time, quick changeover, standardization works and ect.

quality, competitiveness, lean production, instruments of lean production, costs, system 5S, system TPM, Toyota Production System, kaizen.