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Welcome to Value Stream
Technology
For the last two decades Lean
Manufacturing and Lean Management have been the most important and driving
concepts and strategies for many manufacturing-oriented companies worldwide.Lean Manufacturing does not only
include manufacturing operations, but also the entire value stream from
clients over manufacturing to suppliers, engineering and planning of all
operations in and even beyond the plant. It is a corporate strategy enabling
streamlined processes and process chains. Lean Strategies are focused on
continuous improvement, with a powerful philosophy to make everything
transparent, utilizing visual support and signals, simplification of
processes, and involving people, applying clear process flow and even
'fool-proof' procedures.
Years ago, many people said:
'lean means manual processes only, supported by paper-based information instead of systems'. In a modern environment, however, lean
manufacturing does not exclude latest technology anymore, as long as the
combination of process, person and applications remains or becomes a lean
environment and process network.
For about two decades
contradictions have ruled opinions: MRP vs. Lean, Scheduling vs. Pull,
Kanban vs. e-Kanban... time to think about synergy and fusion!
'Fusion of
contradictions' and 'everything contains it's opposite'
had been the starting point to create new solutions and to found
CellFusion, Inc. right in the heart of Silicon Valley in
California in 1999. Removing contradictions and generating a powerful solution, the
fusion of
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