(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The success of a lean manufacturing program depends far more on organizationwide leverage of lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves. To this the organization must add the human relations aspects that earn buy-in and engagement by all members of the workforce, to the extent that workers will react immediately and decisively to the presence of waste.

The synergy of the human and technological aspects of lean from what Henry Ford called a universal code for the achievement of world-class results in any enterprise, and which he put into practice to deliver unprecedented bottom-line results. The book, Lean Management System LMS: 2012, by William A. Levinson (Productivity Press, 2012) expands upon and systemizes this universal code into a structure or framework that promotes organizational self-audits and continuous improvement.

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