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Lean manufacturing concepts have been adopted successfully at many
locations throughout the Army and Department of Defense. This
issue contains several Lean “success stories,” beginning on
page 2 with the
events that
led up to the implementation of Lean concepts to
the small emplacement excavator vehicle recapitalization program
at Red River Army Depot in Texas. The program subsequently was expanded to include
high-mobility, multipurpose wheeled vehicles (humvees). On the
cover, Red River employees install splash shields on humvees being rebuilt on the Lean production
line. In fiscal year 2006, Lean initiatives enabled the depot
to improve productivity by approximately 75 percent and reduce
lead times by approximately
70 percent. (Photo by Pam Barrett, Red River Army Depot Information
Management Office.)
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