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    Lean manufacturing aims to eliminate waste from operations by removing unnecessary steps and resources as defined by Henry Ford. It uses techniques across the entire supply chain to optimize efficiency from raw materials to the customer. The goal is to identify and remove seven types of waste including overproduction, waiting time, transportation, unnecessary processes, inventory, motion, and quality inspection costs.

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    Lean manufacturing aims to eliminate waste from operations by removing unnecessary steps and resources as defined by Henry Ford. It uses techniques across the entire supply chain to optimize efficiency from raw materials to the customer. The goal is to identify and remove seven types of waste including overproduction, waiting time, transportation, unnecessary processes, inventory, motion, and quality inspection costs.

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    What is Lean?

    Henry Ford defined the lean concept in one sentence: “We will not put into our establishment
    anything that is useless.”

    Lean manufacturing is a system of techniques and activities for running a manufacturing or


    service operation. The techniques and activities differ according to the application at hand but
    they have the same underlying principle: the elimination of all non-value-adding activities and
    waste from the business.

    Lean enterprise extends this concept through the entire value stream or supply chain: The leanest
    factory cannot achieve its full potential if it has to work with non-lean suppliers and
    subcontractors.

    Types of Waste
    1. Overproduction
    2. Waiting, time in queue
    3. Transportation
    4. Non-value-adding processes
    5. Inventory
    6. Motion
    7. Costs of quality: scrap, rework and inspection

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