APA ITU ‘LEAN’?

Lean’ merujuk kepada koleksi prinsip-prinsip dan kaedah-kaedah yang memberi tumpuan kepada mengenalpasti dan menghapuskan aktiviti yang tidak memberi nilai tambah (Pembaziran Kerja) kepada pelanggan dalam mana-mana proses.

James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos coined the term “lean” in their 1990 book The Machine that Changed the World to describe the manufacturing paradigm (often referred to as the Toyota Production System) developed by the Toyota Motor Company based on principles pioneered by Henry Ford.

In the late 1990 James Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote a book called

The Machine That Changed the World:

The Story of Lean Production – Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry”

In this book, Womack introduced the Toyota Production System to American.

The birth of a phrase – ”Lean Manufacturing"