lean manufacturing

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lean manufacturing [¦lēn ‚man·ə′fak·chər·iŋ]

(industrial engineering)

A production system consisting of manufacturing cells linked together with a functionally integrated system for inventory and production control that uses less of the key resources needed to make goods.

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