"He brought the Toyota principles over and understood the need for lean manufacturing."
The system is a major precursor of the more generic "lean manufacturing."
In industry, lead time reduction is an important part of lean manufacturing.
In the post world war 2 the industries were producing heavily so it was necessary to apply lean manufacturing.
The first three of these are also attributes of lean manufacturing.
He says he will bring the principles of lean manufacturing to other parts of the business.
What we now call lean manufacturing was developed by Toyota and other Japanese companies.
This waste is one of the most important elements targeted for reduction and elimination in lean manufacturing.
But lean manufacturing cannot work when decisions are pushed down from top executives to middle managers to line workers.
Done right, lean manufacturing not only saves time and money directly, but also helps a company quickly identify flaws in its overall production process.