Mass production logic = #fail

We've been amazed in the years since the launch of Lean Thinking that many firms in the manufacturing world have continued to pursue mass production logic with respect to production location. They have disaggregated their value streams, seeking to place each processing step with significant labor in that global location with lowest wage costs and seemingly locating the processing steps as far apart as possible. The consequence is that many points are optimized but the whole surely is not.

From: Womack and Jones - Lean Thinking

 

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