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DRIVING COMPETITIVENESS USING LEAN

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-2013

Publisher

National Standards Authority of Ireland

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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 What is Lean?
4 The journey to becoming Lean: the spiral
of continuous improvement
5 "Lifting off" your Lean journey
6 Lean problem solving
7 Lean tools
8 Continuing on the Lean journey
Annex A (informative) - Glossary of terms
Annex B (informative) - Links for further help
Annex C (informative) - Self assessment benchmarking
Annex D (informative) - Bibliography - Further reading

Describes Lean, Lean principles and Lean practices, and provides information on Lean tools and Techniques to help any organization wishing to get started on the Lean journey to continuous improvement. Useful for leaders of organizations, managers, specialists, supervisors, front line staff as well as Lean champions and those tasked with setting Lean in motion.