Technologies to reduce production costs: how manufacturers can make themselves more competitive by setting up quality systems, investing in R&D, and designing products with manufacturing in mind.

The day of the dedicated machine is dead. stores must be lean, flexible, do more with les and design for manufacturability. To do these, average manufacturers are shifting to lean manufacturing or Six Sigma principles, exploiting the advantages of R&D, putting speck solutions in place, and last, implementing product-lifecycle management.

Lean manufacturing

According to William Parr, professor in the Lean Enterprise a whole Design Institute and faculty director of the Greenwood Lean Enterprise Center at the University of Tennessee lean manufacturing is a powerful tool