The last word on lean manufacturing.

Lean- and demand-based manufacturing systems comprise a broad variety of strategies and activities that are well known to most industrial engineers. IIE Solutions magazine conducted a survey among its readers about lean manufacturing. Half the respondents affirmed that had not as yet adopted lean manufacturing while nine indicated that they were not planning to pursue it. This might be because they have no compelling reasons for doing so: firms rarely consider lean manufacturing unless they are experiencing trouble. Furthermore, these firms may have not have had senior managers who could in