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

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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
>



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