Lean Manufacturing(2)

The document discusses lean manufacturing and one-piece flow manufacturing. It defines key lean concepts like takt time, kanban, jidoka, and heijunka. It then summarizes how United Electric Controls implemented one-piece flow manufacturing through techniques like reducing lot sizes to one piece and pulling production through the process at the customer demand rate. This enabled them to reduce lead times from 4-5 weeks to an average of 2 weeks while improving quality and flexibility.