Whether your manufacturing facility focuses on discrete, process or mixed mode manufacturing, applying lean techniques can create major improvements. Even in highly regulated industries such as medical device manufacturing, there is a place for all key lean techniques.
Some lean advocates try to eliminate ERP and other software systems on the grounds that they add non-value added steps to the management process, but this is not the case. Even highly lean companies use ERP for calculating long...(read more)![]()
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