The Truly Lean Plant Has Two Key Organizational Features It Transfers The Maxim

Most activities that we think of as value-creating are actually muda, and most of the rest are necessary to support the value-creating steps.

The critical starting point for lean thinking is value. Value can only be defined by the ultimate customer.

Lean production is lean because it uses less of everything compared with mass production — half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools.