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What is LEAN Process Improvement?

What is LEAN process improvement? 


LEAN made popular by Toyota focus primarily on the reduction of Muda (waste) to improve value to the customer. 

The seven wastes include transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, over-processing, over-production, and defect. LEAN is founded on the belief that waste can be eliminated and asks the question does the process step provide value from the customer perspective.  To learn about our online LEAN class.

Since 1995, we at CRE8 Independent Consultants have assisted hundreds of organizations and trained thousands of individuals in process improvement methods and strategies. 


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