Lean Manufacturing: Not Enough for Success

Lean Manufacturing: Not Enough for Success: Via StatesmanJournal: Neilsen layoffs are omen for area firms: Loss of 125 Salem jobs signals problems in manufacturing ...

Toby Manthey, Statesman Journal, reports on challenges faced by firm with excellence in lean manufacturing. This highlights that efficiency is not enough to guarantee success in the competitive market landscape ...

... "The 48-year-old company is a model of lean manufacturing, a group of practices that maximize the use of factory space, time and employees. Competitors say Neilsen is the largest or second-largest business of its kind in Oregon. A precision sheet-metal shop that makes computer bodies and other products for high-tech corporations, it was named Manufacturer of the Year in June by Salem's Strategic Economic Development Corp. " ...