Achieving more with less

By:China Daily, Wang Ying

In China, one of the world's fastest developing countries, Staufen AG, a Germany-based lean consultancy, strives to provide its clients with a mixture of the best of German efficiency and Chinese speed. Both virtues are key ingredients for the successful application of lean manufacturing.

Making manufacturing processes efficient by removing all steps that do not add values to the product from the customer perspective is the essence of the "lean" philosophy...