You all can download my Lean manufacturing .ppt presentation from Seth's ftp site. Ioan, did you get it? Jit is Lean. Lean simply means eliminating waste. Waste is anything not adding value to product. Waste is excess inventory, wasted motion, wasted time, etc. The 5 S's are a good starting point for lean. It is impossible to have lean unless all players in the supply chain are CONCURRENTLY involved and working in accordance with specified contract requirements up and down the supply/food chain. Kanban is an indicator and is used in lean. Lean is linear and nothing can be moved unless the Kanban is empty. Lean is based on a pull manufacturing system dictated by customer demand. Customer demand is based on takt time or a rythm much like a drum beat. Takt time sets the pace for which product is manufactured and supplied. When the drum beat is faster so is demand. Unlike a push system employing a highly wasteful manufacturing methodology, that constantly clogs the system with high inventory, a pull system has no waste. It goes on and on but it is a simple concept/methodology when understood. Kaizen is continuous improvement. A good quality system, like ISO when properly employed and managed, is designed to seek continuous improvement to eliminate waste. And on it goes, MoonMan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------