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Post by haazare on Jun 23, 2011 6:45:43 GMT -5
Lean manufacturing is the processes, techniques, strategies and initiatives being implemented by companies around the world that aim to reduce unnecessary and unproductive tasks, activities and behaviours in the work environment.
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Post by justeen on Jun 23, 2011 6:56:43 GMT -5
There are seven identified 'forms of waste' within the work environment and systems that lean manufacturing principally aims to alleviate, if not totally eliminate. These are over production, over processing, transportation, motion, inventory, waiting and scrap and defects.
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