Lean Manufacturing
A quick definition of Lean Manufacturing (a derivative of the Toyota Production System) is that it is a set of principles and tools that helps to eliminate process activities that don't add value and to create "flow" in a process. A Lean process is defined as one that uses only the absolute minimum of resources to add value to the service or product. In a Lean process, no people, equipment, or space are dedicated to rework. Lead times are minimal and everybody involved in the process performs only value-added tasks. Rath & Strong pioneered Lean Methodology by helping bring this powerful concept to the West in the 1970s. Lean methodologies can be applied as effectively to a service or transactional business as to a manufacturing business. For more information please fill out the form to the right.
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