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Chapter 2

Lean Management System’s

Principal Elements

The Lean management system, like the Lean production system, consists

of only a few principal elements. Lean management is a system in which

the elements are interdependent (as in the Lean production system).

Thatmeans all of the elements have to be present for the system to work.

A third similarity with Lean production is that none of the elements

are complex or complicated. And finally, Lean management and Lean

production themselves are interdependent; one does not stand for long

without the other.

So, what are the core elements of the Lean management system?

Chapters 3 to 5 each detail ...