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Lean Manufacturing

Chao, Raul O., Gol...

Technical Note

Lean Manufacturing

Chao, Raul O.; Goldberg, Rebecca

SB-1661 | Published September 4, 2025 | 3 Pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Product Details

This technical note is part of a set that focuses on Lean manufacturing and just-in-time (JIT) production. While designed to be used together, these two notes can also be used as stand-alone documents to support particular learning objectives. The other note in this set is “Just-in-Time Production” (UVA-SB-1662). These materials form one module in our collection of introductory operations management topics, and all are appropriate for an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level introductory course on operations management. The complete list of the materials in this collection is available in the teaching materials included with this technical note.

1. To present seven forms of muda (waste) that Lean methods seek to reduce, including transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overprocessing, overproduction, and defects 2. To describe the framework and goals of JIT production, including reducing setup times, minimizing batch sizes, and prioritizing pull manufacturing over push manufacturing