Lean Management is gradually finding acceptance as the way business needs to be conducted to keep continually in step with consumer needs for products and increasingly in this century, services. The various features of the Toyota Production System (TPS) have been extensively decoded and described and found immediate use in the automotive, aerospace, ship-building, defense production, electronics, fast moving consumer goods. Even in these industries truly enterprise-wide efforts have been far and few with finance, sales, marketing and product development still being bastions of traditional thinking. |
