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Lean Enterprise is a new mechanism for looking at the whole, a channel for the value stream.

The objectives of the lean enterprise are very simple:

  1. Correctly specify value for the customer.
  2. Identify all the actions required to bring a product from concept to launch, from order to delivery, or from raw material into the hands of the customer and on through its useful life.
  3. Remove any actions which do not create value and make those actions which do create value proceed in continuous flow as pulled by the customer.
  4. Analyze the results and start the evaluation process over again.

The mechanism of the lean enterprise is also very simple: a conference of all the firms along the stream, assisted by technical staff from "lean functions" in the participating firms, to periodically conduct rapid analyses and then to take fast-strike improvement actions. Clearly someone must be the leader, and this is logically the firm bringing all of the designs and components together into a complete product. However, the participants must treat each other as equals, with muda as the joint enemy. [1]

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References

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  1. ^ Womack, James and Daniel Jones (1996). "Lean Thinking", Free Press.


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Category: Lean manufacturing