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August 29, 2005
Lean Manufacturing at Castcon-Stone

Lean manufacturing transforms operations at Saxonburg company:

Kerckhoff said redoing certain portions of products accounted for about 12 percent of the company’s volume of work last year. However, after implementing the new lean manufacturing initiative, the number is now down to about 4 percent, and most of the rework is so minor that the company would not have tracked it in the past.

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