Across all industries, Lean Manufacturing is the proven path to improved quality, lower costs and shorter delivery times.
At Integrated Products and Services, we use our industry experience and expertise, along with our Ecoflex line of products to provide companies in all industries the ideal tools required to implement the idea of lean in every manufacturing environment.
What is Lean Manufacturing?
Lean manufacturing, lean production, or simply, "Lean," is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination. Working from the perspective of the customer who consumes a product or service, "value" is defined as any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for.
Essentially, lean is centered on preserving value with less work. Lean manufacturing is a management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS). TPS is renowned for its focus on reduction of the original seven mudas, or wastes to improve overall customer value. The steady growth of Toyota, from a small company to the world's largest automaker, has focused attention on how it has achieved this.
The goal of Lean then becomes the creation and maintenance of a production system which runs repetitively, day after day, week after week, consistently. According to its Japanese founders, 80% of lean manufacturing consists in creating an attitude that eliminates waste and maximises added value.
Throughout this website, discover Lean Manufacturing and how Ecoflex and IPS can help your company reduce mudas and implement kaizen and the lean spirit in your facility
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