Is lean alone enough? Many companies attempt to convert from traditional to the new manufacturing by relying exclusively on lean tools. Hospitals and offices too. In keeping with core lean principles, they focus on reducing the time component of a process–attacking time as a cost factor in order to increase profit margin. That means reducing cycle time as well. Join Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual workplace expert, as she begins a discussion thread on the interface between lean and visual. (Fasten your seatbelts because in a few short weeks, this thread will bring us face to face wit
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