Michael Hammer, co-founder of the Business Process Re-engineering Management theory, said that 50% of companies fail to ‘do lean’ and for 70% of companies who have tried, lean was not fully implemented. Will Stirling finds out what obstacles lean faces in an organisation.
When it works, the power of lean manufacturing is intoxicating. Just ask Cogent Orb Electrical Steels (Cogent). The South Wales-based maker of high grade electrical steel, used in the power generation industry, was on its knees in 2003 and faced closure. Lean – or at least Cogent’s interpretation of lean and the cultural change that…
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