Although lean manufacturing attempts to reduce the amount of labor used in the manufacturing process, it typically does so by increasing the amount of most of the other resources used in the production process.

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Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything compared to mass production: less human effort, but also less investment in tools, less manufacturing space, and even less engineering time.

Although Lean Manufacturing Attempts to Reduce the Amount of Labor