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At what point can we say that we have reached the top of lean manufacturing?

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Date Posted: 2013/05/20
Hassan Abou-Wafia
by Hassan Abou-Wafia , Regional Director of manufacturing engineering , PKC group

If you reach it than it's not lean manufacturing, it's all about continuous improvement.
Plan, Do, Check and Act; it's a continuous loop.
When all members of the organization are adopting this loop and convinced that it's the key than they are ideally implementing lean.

Peter Saunders
by Peter Saunders , Senior Partner , Swallowwood Consultancy LLP

You cannot ever say this. It is part of a CONTINUAL process of improvement and you should plan, do, check, act and maintain self criticism to drive improvement.

Hatem Fouad
by Hatem Fouad , Mechanical Engineer (Part Time) , TOUCH HOME

You never are a lean, You always try to be a lean.

RAM PARTHASARATHY
by RAM PARTHASARATHY , Managing Director , Tower Aluminium (Nigeria) Plc

You can never say you have reached the top in lean manufacturing.  That's because lean is about continuous improvement which is the principal focus.  By definition therefore, since there is always scope to do better, you can never reach the top.

 

Best regards

 

Ram Parthasarathy

Ibrahim Kassem
by Ibrahim Kassem , Factory Production Manager , SC Johnson

there is no best in lean thinking ..
when you start thinking Lean you now that there is alowes better than the current because the lean thinkink is continous and end less it is a continous improvement you have to think how to improve your process   

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