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Implemented via an appropriately architected enterprise resource planning system, lean manufacturing principals can play a crucial role in reducing knowledge worker and administrative inefficiencies in an aerospace/defense environment.
Lean Manufacturing is a management philosophy, enabled and supported by various techniques, to eliminate any form of non-value adding activity. With terms like "lot size of one," "continuous flow" and "pull production," lean manufacturing has primarily been associated with the factory floors of short-run, repetitive manufacturers. In the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry, government regulations often impose very different business practices than those followed in the commercial sector. Can Lean manufacturing principals work in A&D? The answer is yes. Implemented via an appropriately architected ERP system, lean manufacturing principals can and should play a crucial role in A&D, particularly in reducing knowledge worker and administrative waste, a huge component of cost in A&D environments.
The practice of Lean Manufacturing got started in Japan in the 1950’s at Toyota Motor Company.
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