on December 13, 2016
Operations
How Ridley feed mills benefit from lean principles
Ridley’s director of lean Chris Petersen discusses how the adoption of lean manufacturing principles improve customer satisfaction, workflow in feed manufacturing
The application of lean principles to U.S. manufacturing operations took hold in the 1990s when James Womack, Daniel Jones and a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers introduced the concept of lean, or the elimination of waste from a manufacturing process, as shorthand for Toyota’s production model. Since…