What is lean manufacturing? Lean manufacturing is a series of methods designed to reduce or minimize the waste of labour and material resources while maintaining or increasing levels of production and maximizing profits. Lean manufacturing offers a lot of benefits to woodworking shops. It ensures that activities like over-production, over-processing, motion, transportation, waiting, inventory, and scraps and defects are drastically reduced. Read more about the principles of lean manufacturing in Introduction to Lean Manufacturing. How…
The lean approach has taken over the manufacturing world. Each aspect of production has benefited by extracting more from the limited resources available. Consequently, lean…