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CREATE VALUE - LET IT FLOW - REMOVE OBSTACLES
SOLVE PROBLEMS - FACILITATE LEARNING
A starting point that reveals Lean's opposite approach is that traditional organizations make things in 'Batches'.
They are organized in functional departments by type of equipment, or by specialty in non-manufacturing organizations, and they push the work through this complicated structure using MRP and other systems that try to overcome the complexity (i.e. waste) created by this type of organization.
The Lean organization does just the opposite. It is organized by value streams and makes product flow smoothly through the various processes at the pull of the customer, all by using simple visual tools like kanban cards. This leads to many contrasts".
Lean Thinking begins with :
1. The correct answers are unknown.
2. We try to understand problems better by
3. Attempting countermeasures to problems as we currently understand them, which
4. Leads us to better understand the problem,
5. See who is engaged and creative with the issue and
6. Often discover completely new ways of going about.
(Lean thinking)