Strategy Driven
MAY 2, 2018
Therefore, lean manufacturing is about reducing or eliminating waste across the board, from customer service and design to distribution and manufacturing. It is also commonly referred to as lean production. There are many benefits associated with lean manufacturing, as well as numerous challenges.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2011
Thus there is a high probability of long-term radiation leaks that will devastate the local Fukushima economy, which is dependent on agriculture (sales of spinach, broccoli, and other produce from a wide area are already banned ) and fisheries (who knows what the long-term implications are here) and of course the destroyed plant.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2015
automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2012
Danaher, a smaller but very profitable conglomerate with a diverse range of manufacturing businesses, has a very different set of strengths; it applies its distinctive lean production system to a variety of product sectors, often through companies that it acquires and then transforms.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2016
Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. Almost every sophisticated manufacturer uses some kind of lean production system that pulls raw materials in from a warehouse. Long gone are the days of vertical integration when a manufacturer could make everything itself.
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