Achieving Excellence Through Lean Manufacturing: A Lean Leader’s Journey (Great Lean Leaders)

Lean manufacturing is a production process based on an ideology of maximizing productivity while simultaneously minimizing waste within a manufacturing operation. Lean Principles see waste as anything that doesn’t add value that the customers are willing to pay for.Lean manufacturing maximizes productivity, minimizes waste, improves quality, and enhances customer satisfaction, ultimately leading to cost savings and competitive advantage.Through interviews with the president of a manufacturing company, this book relates the journey of learning and growth as shared through storytelling, reflecting, and releasing tested wisdom.By fostering a culture of continuous improvement, this Great Lean Leader unfolds the truths for how his organization got to sustainable success- and continues the relentless pursuit of value creation.As part of the Great Lean Leaders series, this book is designed to provide several reference points for reading and learning about the what’s, why’s and how’s of Lean L