The Company That Invented Lean

Principle 1: Base your management decision on a long-term philosophy, even at the expense of short-term financial goals
Principle 2: Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface
Principle 3: Use “pull” systems to avoid overproduction
Principle 4: Level out the workload( heijunka)
Principle 5: Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, [...]