Lean manufacturing is a philosophy of production that emphasizes the use of the minimum amount of all resources (especially labor and time) used in the various activities of the manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing involves identifying and eliminating non-value-adding activities in design, production, supply chain management, and dealing with customers. Lean manufacturers employ teams of multiskilled employees at all levels of the organization and use highly flexible, increasingly automated machines to produce volumes of products in potentially massive varieties. Lean manufacturing contains a ...
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