Manufacturing Industry
The overgeneralization is over.(Company overview)
Manufacturing Business Technology, February, 2007
By Pamela Gordon, contributing editor It's time to get specific with the uses of lean in the electronics industry During the past several years, the term Lean has been overused and overgeneralized. Yet the principles of lean remain ever important, as it reduces not only an organization's own costs and time-to-market, but also overall business costs and global environmental impact.
To generate actionable ideas and renewed inspiration, it's time to get specific with nitty-gritty cases of lean and the resulting savings in quantifiable measure. But first, some background. In a January 2007 study by Technology Forecasters , Alameda, Calif., hundreds of electronics-industry managers answered 40 questions about the use of lean in their...
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