To understand Lean, visualize a river near you. Is it a smooth-flowing river with straight banks? Or is it a river with twist and turns, white-water rapids followed by dry mud-filled beds and stagnant water? If you understand these two types of rivers, you understand the power of Lean. Lean has its roots in the Toyota Production System, commonly referred to as TPS. TPS revolutionized not only Toyota but the entire Japanese Manufacturing Industry. Thirty years later, nearly every successful manufacturing company in North America has embraced the concepts of Lean Manufacturing, seeing it as a fundamental tool for survival. Working with Libraries across North America, Mr. Huber discovered that Lean is just as powerful for the library world as it still is for the manufacturing industry. 

 

Mr. Huber has fine tuned the Lean Methodology for the Library world, and it is called 'Lean Library Management'. We have taken the core principles of Lean, including service chains, elimination of all wastes, seeking out the quickest and smoothest flow path, 'U' shapted flow, cross-functional teams, Kanban and much more into easily understood concpets that librarians and their staff can embrace. The successes speak for themselves.