Lean Thinking



Lean Thinking

Lean manufacturing at Lantech Inc.

For more than 20 years, Lantech Inc., a manufacturer of industrial packaging equipment, believed in using cutting edge technology and equipment and see it as the only road to success. Ironically, now the company is much bigger in size and catering to worldwide market, it is running on the type of technology which could have been installed 45 years ago. For instance, Instead of automated assembly machines and numerically controlled lathes, workers at Lantech are wielding hand tools and drill presses. Instead of specialized computer generated work orders, conspicuous white boards diagram and describe ...