The other savings came from standardizing our manufacturing processes and implementing lean manufacturing principles.
As Toyota discovered with lean manufacturing, production-line workers, given the chance, can come up with plenty of good ideas to improve productivity.
As part of the supply chain, the demands placed on you require responsiveness and the flexibility of mixed mode and lean manufacturing methods.
To this end, it has introduced lean manufacturing techniques in its Seattle factories, even bringing in a moving conveyor line to streamline aircraft assembly.
Lean manufacturing requires partners to share information knowing that it will not be leaked to a competitor, or used to strike a new bargain.
In a sense, StreamWork applies the Lean Manufacturing concept of standardizing work to the process of decision making, which makes a variety of continuous improvement processes possible.
And, tapping his auto parts experience, he introduced the just-in-time inventory-control system and lean manufacturing, which emphasizes reducing wasteful processes in order to make better products and respond quickly to customers.
And to help meet that goal, this master of lean manufacturing is experimenting with a new cost-saving factory setup that it hopes to deploy around the world--while competitors are just now catching up with its last-generation manufacturing innovations.
Clark, who has expertise in drug marketing and manufacturing, will probably have to lean very heavily on Merck's research chief, Peter Kim , to find new drugs to fill the company's ailing pipeline.
Professor Donald MacRae, who co-ordinates the PMI for Bank of Scotland, suggests Scottish manufacturing may be benefiting from modernising in the pre-recession era to a more lean profile, helping explain why things look better for now.
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