lean production
Definition
Doing more with less by employing 'lean thinking.' Lean production involves never ending efforts to eliminate or reduce 'muda' (Japanese for waste or any activity that consumes resources without adding value) in design, manufacturing, distribution, and customer service processes. Developed by the Toyota executive Taiichi Ohno (1912-90) during post-Second World War reconstruction period in Japan, and popularized by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones in their 1996 book 'Lean Thinking.' Also called lean manufacturing.
lean production is in the Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subject.
lean production appears in the definitions of the following terms:
multifunctional worker,
flow,
radical process improvement (RPI),
theory of constraints (TOC),
heijunka,
pull,
waste,
continuous flow distribution (CFD),
mass customization,
lean manufacturing
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