About the Centre
LERC
is one of the Business School's major research centres, with around 20 staff and a track record of innovative Research, Executive Education and Innovation & Engagement activities. It was founded by Professor Peter Hines and Daniel T Jones in 1994. The centre is part of the Business School's Logistics and Operations Management (LOM) section and is a contributor
to the EPSRC Cardiff University Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre.
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Aims and Mission
Our mission is to be a world class lean thinking and supply chain research centre, dedicated to:
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Developing a greater understanding of lean
thinking
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Developing pioneering, leading-edge lean
thinking research tools and techniques
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Helping organisations achieve world class performance through the application of lean thinking principles and techniques
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Disseminating lean thinking knowledge through a broad range of
education programmes and executive courses and through communicating to
the broader management population
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What is Lean Thinking?
The term ‘lean’ was popularised in the seminal book ‘The Machine that
Changed the World’ , which clearly
illustrated - for the first time - the significant performance gap
between the Japanese and western automotive industries. It described
the key elements accounting for this superior performance as lean
production - ‘lean’ because Japanese business methods used less of
everything - human effort, capital investment, facilities, inventories
and time - in manufacturing, product development, parts supply and
customer relations.
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