Hi evreryone, IBM does embrace Lean Manufacturing, and we have used it in many fields that directly apply to manufacturing processes, but , also, we have applied it to areas of development. I have participated in one of them. Regards. Carlos Rivadeneira Senior Engineer Foundry Applications Engineering E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel:(802) 769-7114 T/L: 446 -7114 Fax:(802) 769-7147 "The difficult, we eventually see; the obvious, it seems to take a little longer." Alba Gabriela Garay Romero <[log in to unmask] To > [log in to unmask] Sent by: cc Engineers Without Borders Subject <[log in to unmask] Re: Change for the good > 02/14/2007 09:52 AM Please respond to Engineers Without Borders <[log in to unmask] > Thanks Andrew!!! Gabriela Quoting Andrew Laing <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi EWB and GreenSpeed, > > Catching up with an old friend, I was introduced to Lean > Manufacturing and the idea of Kaizen. The concepts he presented > seemed of interest to GreenSpeed or for anyone else trying to get > engineering projects done. > > Check out these Wikipedia articles: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing > > Cheers, Andrew > > > > -- > Andrew Laing <[log in to unmask]> > ``Human kind cannot bear very much reality.'' > -- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets: Burnt Norton > -- Gabriela Garay CS Graduate Student Senator CSSA Secretary SWE Membership Chair IEEE-ACM Member