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The Lean Manufacturing Solution – the value-added way
Do you know the amount of value-added time on your shop floor? If you are like most manufacturers, 95% of total lead-time is non-value-added!
Lean is a business operating philosophy in which value to the customer drives manufacturing processes. On the shop floor, it means doing only what adds value to the customer. If you eliminate non-value-added activities, you increase productivity and reduce costs, while offering the customer faster turnaround times and higher quality.
Lean is based on reducing or eliminating ten principle sources of waste: complexity, wasted labor, overproduction, space, energy, defects, materials, idle materials, time, and transportation. The original Lean system was the Toyota Production System™, which lowered costs by focusing on eliminating all non-value-added activities.
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