From the course: Lean Six Sigma Foundations
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Why Lean?
- We will not put into our establishment anything that is useless. That's a pretty good definition for what we call today the lean approach. You see, the principles of lean production were first established at Ford Motor Company, and they were recorded in several books Mr. Ford wrote in the 1920s. These principles were updated and refined by Toyota after the Second World War, and they helped Japan to become a manufacturing powerhouse. Lean is defined as the elimination of all non-value-added activities, or waste. Although most people associate lean with the production floor, the principles apply equally well to all parts of the organization and its supply chain. Examples of waste within the organization include unnecessary steps or activities, rework, waiting time, unnecessary movement of people or material, and excess inventory. The goal of lean is to find those areas of waste and to permanently eliminate them. Lean efforts are greatly enabled by a strong focus on continuous…
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