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What is Lean Production? Meaning.

Lean Production is a manufacturing performance improvement approach and philosophy that emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities of the enterprise. It involves identifying and eliminating non-value-adding activities in design, production, supply chain management, and dealing with the customers.

Lean producers employ teams of multi-skilled workers at all levels of the organization and use highly flexible, increasingly automated machines to produce volumes of products in potentially enormous variety. It contains a set of principles and practices to reduce cost through the relentless removal of Waste and through the simplification of all manufacturing and support processes.

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Best Practices The best, top-rated topics about Lean Production. Here you will find the most valuable ideas and practical suggestions. Lean Business Processes Jeff Hall in Management Services, Winter2006, Vol. 50 Issue 4, encourages the adoption of a lean approach to business process improvement. Lean is about building world class processes that delive... 38   Organizations Must Go on a DIET to Become Lean Lean is focused on the elimination or reduction of waste and the continuous improvement of the overall performance of a company. Acquiring the proficiency to accomplish more with less is the path towa... 37   19 comments Lean Time and Lead Time What is lean time? Are lead time and lean time the same or different?... 19   3 comments Relation Between Value Chain and Lean? What is the interrelationship of the Value Chain and Lean?... 17   2 comments Trends in Lean: What's Hot? Hello. My name is Christoffer and I am working with a paper about Lean. I am looking for interesting / hot topics to take up in the paper and was wondering if somone could inform me about the hottetst... 15   4 comments Ownership of Complex Lean Projects Who should take ownership of lean projects that impact different areas of the value chain?... 7   3 comments

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See also: Just-in-time  |  Total Productive Maintenance  |  3rd Party Logistics (3PL)  |  Vendor Managed Inventory  |  Waste Management  |  Bullwhip Effect  |  Value Engineering  |  Scientific Management  |  Quick Response Manufacturing

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