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The lean manufacturing starting as a program & end up as a culture. It is included all tools helps to achieve manufacturing excellence in all company categories starting from SCM, Operation, Maintenance...etc. If the team didn't deal with the lean manufacturing in day to day and make it the way they are dealing with each other then they won't get the fruit behind it.
Lean manufacturing is simply, optimizing cost and simplification of processes of Input and output products.
It will guide certain organizations on how to optimize lifecycle of the procurement process and collaborative methodologies if applies between vendor and buyer shall benefit both parties in terms of return.
Firstly manufacturing can be defined as 'make (something) on a large scale using machinery.'
now lean manufacturing is defined as "make (something) on a large scale using machinery by eliminating waste/inventory.
Thus we have manufacturing by eliminating waste is known as lean manufacturing.
waste can be of any types, design, technology used, methods, transportation etc.
it is a method have many tools to eliminates waste from all product processes
This is one of the modern day cost effective elimination method of waste within a manufacturing system. This not only eliminates the waste but it essentially utilizes this unwanted material to productive use in some other units of the manufacturing set up.
manufacturing with least wastage from the system
Lean Manufacturing is a manufacturing/production system best characterized as relentlessly eliminating waste from all of its’ activities and operations. Lean strives to produce products (and deliver services).
Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply "lean", is a systematic method for the elimination of waste within a manufacturing system
The simple answer is Lean is reduction/elimination of unwanted wastes.