Jon Sievert says he gets many different answers when he asks people to describe lean: tightening the belt; doing more with less; reducing inventory; cost-savings program; waste elimination; quality ...

Lean manufacturing is misunderstood and disparaged, with an absence of facts behind the perception. Manufacturing has a serious PR problem. Dark, dank, dangerous and disappearing is a work environment ...

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