- [[Lean Startup]] related methods are often referred to as "Lean" for short, but what does it really mean?
- [[lean manufacturing]] ([[Lean Production]], lean product system, LPS)
- [Lean manufacturing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing)
- 1980s Research at MIT
- 1991 [[The Machine That Changed the World]].
- Research Director James P. Womack
- [How Lean Manufacturing Will Change the Global Automotive Industry" seems to be the Japanese translation of this article.
- A study of production systems in the Japanese automobile industry (mainly the [[Toyota Production System]]), and a re-systematization and generalization of the results of that study.
- Comparing GM's Framingham plant with Toyota's Takaoka plant
- GM is mass production with the Ford production system, Toyota is high-mix, low-volume production
- Order only the amount of parts needed on the production line
- Just in time (JIT)
- Make what you need, when you need it, and as much as you need it.
- [[Local, actual, phenomenon]] [[5Why]]
- 1996 [Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation [https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Thinking-Corporation-Revised-Updated/dp/](https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Thinking-Corporation-Revised-Updated/dp/) 0743249275]
- Abstraction from "how to build a car" to "how to think".
- [Lean thinking - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_thinking)
- [[lean thinking]]
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