Lean manufacturing is a generic process management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS) but also from other sources. It is renowned for its focus on reduction of the original Toyota 'seven wastes' in order to improve overall customer value.
Lean is often linked with Six Sigma because of that methodology's emphasis on reduction of process variation (or its converse smoothness).
Toyota's steady growth from a small player to the most valuable and the biggest car company in the world has focused attention upon how it has achieved this, making "Lean" a hot topic in management science in the first decade of the 21st century.
To learn more on Toyota's Lean development ,read the special report :Special report
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