The Lean Engineering Travel Guide

Introduction

You might be asking yourself whether it even makes any sense to talk about Lean in the context of engineering or development. Well, the vocabulary is a little different, depending on the country and culture, but the most important thing is the product – using the word here in its broadest sense: namely, what gets delivered to a customer. It can be a device, a service, a system – any element that will help a customer (or user) to solve their problems. True success in Lean Engineering is always accompanied by a real passion for the product. We, the authors of this book, work in an industrial group where people are really passionate about products. The products vary, just as the customers vary and the domains of activity vary. These ...