Interesting blog on Lean manufacturing..

As told earlier, I get excited to learn new lessons on Supply Chain and Operations. The more interesting thing is the optimization of the existing systems, which can produce to meet the growing demands of the fast increasing upper middle class. Many people think that it's great to achieve lean manufacturing and optimization in systems.

But, I look at it this way. The purchasing power of the middle class has been increasing greatly and the percentage of people in middle class is increasing at a never seen before rate. Especially the Asian countries are experiencing huge growth in income of their workforce.

What does that mean? We have to use the best processes and produce more than before with the same resources. If we utilize more resources to produce more then the demand for resources would go up and so will be the costs. This is wat is happening in some of the industries to day and that is causing the inflation to move to higher levels.

I have come across a blog named Lean Blog. It has got lots of good references and articles on lean manufacturing.

Going forward, lean manufacturers outpace others and new giants will emerge as Toyota bet GM, which was the market leader for around a century.