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What is Lean?

Lean operation is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and producing what your customers want when they want it. Lean is doing more with less waste. Lean Operations encompasses many of the improvement activities you may have tried before. However, our systematic approach means you do only what is needed to make improvements.

Components of Lean Operations:

  • Factory and Materials Flow
  • Set-Up Reduction
  • Cell Flow and Cell Design
  • Just-In-Time Inventory
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Inventory Control and Reduction
  • Visual Factory
  • Total Quality Management
  • ISO-9001
  • MRP and MRPII
  • Project Management
  • Business Planning
  • Strategic Planning
  • Activity Based Costing
  • Team Training

What Our Customers Are Saying...
"As a result of the assistance from DBR, we expeditiously and efficiently prepared our ISO-9000 Policy Manual. Their expertise and advice enabled us to implement the programs more quickly than we would have been able to without their guidance. Our ISO-9000 program has created new work from several of our clients. We look forward to working with DBR on future programs."

Denny, Jerry, and Larry Willenborg, Iowa Screw Machine Products, Inc. - Carroll


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