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How a product or service moves through a system, with the many inputs of people, materials, and information, has great significance to a healthy lean enterprise and represents an untapped potential in most organizations.
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The history of flow production is long and precedes Toyota and its great work in this area. Ford’s Highland Park Plant is a source and also the writings of Alexander Hamilton Church in 1910! Some review of AH Church sounds more like contemporary descriptions, not something from over 100 years ago.







