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Lean Manufacturing is a strategy for achieving significant, continuous improvements in performance through the elimination of all waste of time and resources in the total business process. Lean Manufacturing improvement efforts are focused on three major areas:

1. Creating a flexible/responsive production environment
2. Developing a capability for rapid improvement
3. The careful application of a company's resources

There are twelve (12) elements that are the major improvement focus for a company's Lean Manufacturing effort. These elements are:

Since the early 1980's Buker, Inc. has been one of the world leaders in providing guidance to manufacturing companies striving to implement Lean Manufacturing principles. The Buker Lean Manufacturing methodology begins with an extensive three-day assessment of business operations. The assessment benchmarks the company's current status and knowledge of Lean and develops an action plan for the following improvement benefits:

• Profit improvements: 1-3 times
• Inventory reduction: 50%
• Cost reduction: 25%
• Cycle time reduction: 50-75%
• Quality improvement: 50-75%

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