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The Line on Design: How to Reduce Material Cost By Eliminating Design Waste

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Overview This paper focuses on Lean design. Lean design is emerging as the key skill of the lean enterprise: simultaneously complementing and overshadowing lean manufacturing. Together, lean design and lean manufacturing provide industrial companies with a complete arsenal to attack waste, both in how the product is produced and in what product gets produced.

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Publisher	EDS , Electronic Data Systems Corporation	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2003	Downloads	164
Format	White Papers
Topics	Manufacturing

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