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Chapter 12

Sustain What You Implement

The purpose of Lean management is to sustain a Lean production system.

Without a Lean management system, Lean production implementations

often falter, sometimes fail, and virtually never deliver up to their long-run

promises. So, what sustains the Lean management system?

In a word, it’s you.

As a leader in your Lean production environment, you are the force

that can motivate and sustain Lean management in your unit. That applies

no matter what your position, whether you are responsible for a team or

department, a value stream or plant, a business unit, or the organization as

awhole.

Expectations for proc ...