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Lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply lean, is a systematic method for the elimination of waste (Muda) within a manufacturing system. Lean also takes into account waste created through overburden (Muri) and waste created through unevenness in work loads (Mura).
Lean is BOTH speed and quality, as opposed to having a tradeoff between the two. Too many in the âLean Six Sigmaâ world have spread a false dichotomy that Lean is about Speed and Six Sigma is for quality. Lean is, at its core, historically and practically, a quality methodology. Kaizen is a core part of the Lean philosophy (along with ârespect for peopleâ) if you look at the two pillars of âThe Toyota Wayâ management approach.