•Lean manufacturing is a business initiative to reduce waste in manufactured products.
•The waste may be from the production process or from any part of the organization.
•The basic idea is to reduce the cost systematically throughout the product and production process.
•Basic concepts an organization must have before implementing lean manufacturing are:
(a)Continuous flow
(b)Standardized flow
(c) Value stream
(d) Value added activities
(e) Pull production
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