Just like so many things in business, Lean management has its own language. We fondly refer to this as the Lean Lexicon.
Many terms are actually borrowed from Japanese. But even the English terms start to take on new meanings when applied to Lean Manufacturing.
And of course, there are acronyms.
This section will try to make sense of all the terms.
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