ABSTRACT
Lean is defined as “a long-term growth philosophy through efforts to increase value of customers, society, and economy with the aim to reduce cost, accelerate time to provide intervention, and improve quality through the waste elimination in total”. As a philosophy, not all people embrace Lean principles. Lean practices rely on operating with optimum performance, being responsible for quality, being oriented on the effort to solve the problem, working in small teams, and continually trying to improve oneself. The emphasis on the humanistic aspect of the Lean philosophy turns the anthropocentrism behavior pyramid of the Industrial Revolution upside down. On the operational level, Lean becomes so varied that it is difficult to discern whether principles indeed depart from actual Lean or are a modification resulting from the different cultures. The core of the strategic level of Lean is waste elimination.
