Abstract
The University of Kentucky’s Lean Systems Program recently merged with the Institute of Research for Technology Development (IR4TD) to provide broader and complete service to both domestic and international customers. The new organizational structure of IR4TD, including the Lean is shown in Fig. 1. Our immediate goal is to assist industry in implementing Lean thinking and strategies to improve performance. This lecture will focus on specific examples on achieving this goal using Lean principles and several lean tools that were developed by Toyota.
