Elgin Sweeper Company Employees Clear a Path Toward Lean Operations with their Lean Enterprise System : Where 5S and lean events are part of the culture.

doi:10.4324/9781420086874-7

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Elgin Sweeper Company Employees Clear a Path Toward Lean Operations with their Lean Enterprise System

ABSTRACT

Elgin Sweeper Company employees learned how to do 5S right during the past few years, as lean concepts became part of their culture. Improvement projects in administrative, engineering, and sales areas as well as production work centers yielded significant initial performance improvements and “lessons learned;” the lean journey continues.