Lean Manufacturing
The article is very informative in terms of lean manufacturing. Due to its thorough literature review the process and principles of lean philosophy seem clearer (“Principles of Lean”). Firstly, it explains what forms waste or muda. The activities that absorb resources, but create no value should be referred as to waste. It can be defined only by identifying customers and defining value of a product to them. For every process this waste may be composed of different activities from different spheres. Secondly, the process mapping is crucially important for being able to see a product or service from the ...