You’ve probably already heard about lean manufacturing. What’s it precisely about? In short, lean is a a philosophy of production that considers using resources for things that won’t create value for the final customer to be wasteful and so to be eliminated from the production process. Lean manufacturing concentrates on delivering a quality service or product while reducing the amount of work needed.
There is more than one approach to lean production. Some view it as a set of tools which help in decreasing the amount of waste in production. Others see lean as being an effort to maintain a special flow in production eliminating “unevenness”. The latter philosophy was promoted by Toyota. The main goal in both these philosophies is generally the same though the method to achieve it is somewhat different.
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