Map Home Renewing Processes Customer Design-Mfg.
High quality is needed to avoid the wasted time and effort of rework.
Cycle Time needs to be minimized to meet delivery requirements and minimize inventory. The following discussion of Lean Thinking and productivity uses manufacturing termminology because the techniques originated there. Activities were broken down into their smallest individual steps. Unnecessary steps were eliminated. Henry Ford developed the assembly line to enable mass production and, thus, lower costs.