Lean Design® at the Concept Stage: The Profit Engine Hiding in Your CAD
When most teams talk “lean,” they’re picturing factory floors: kaizens, takt time, waste walks. Useful, yes. But the biggest cost, quality, and schedule levers sit upstream, before tooling is ordered or a line ever spins up. That’s where Lean Design® makes its impact — at the concept stage. Here, engineers can design out variation, eliminate unnecessary […]