CASE STUDY Situation – Driving continuous improvement in food manufacturing through lean transformation The plant’s operations had stabilized since the sudden resignation of its longtime manager. But productivity was stalled in the bottom quartile of the company’s worldwide network. The new plant manager, from auto manufacturing, planned to apply her lean operations experience to quickly increase productivity by 10 percent. As she became familiar with the plant, she knew this could be doubled. However, no capital spending was allowed. She had to work with existing assets. Client Description, Project Scope, Objectives The plant’s kaizen teams confidently implemented lean initiatives for food manufacturing operations. But they struggled to find ways to improve productivity for eng

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