No one is ever really Lean; even Toyota has significant work beyond the manufacturing floor to be Lean. This chapter gets to the “heart” of why we wrote this book; many companies think they are currently “Lean,” and aren’t even close.
It is common to hear, “Oh, we have improved enough! We don’t need Lean anymore.” Many have checked the Lean box and are looking for the next fad. Many companies are re-packaging Lean, similar to what Six Sigma did with Total Quality, under different names such as World Class Manufacturing, but in reality, there is no world beyond Lean.
Even the Shingo organization, the highest recognition one can receive today, realized it needed to revise the Shingo model to focus more on building ...
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