Lean manufacturing

Literature Subject
Works Written About This Topic
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
 
 

Practice
Derives from
Toyota Production System
Includes
Continuous improvement process
Type
Methodology
Process
Book reference
The Machine That Changed the World
Scope
Organization
Derivatives
A3 Problem Solving
Kaizen
Kanban
Inception year
1988
Applies to
Manufacturing Engineering (Financial Results, Productivity, Quality)
Proposed by
John Krafcik
 
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