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Feb. 25, 2008
Value streaming and customer pull are fundamental pillars in lean manufacturing. Based largely on the Toyota Production System and often confused with Motorola's Six Sigma principles, today's lean initiatives are designed to replace batch-and-queue mentality with flow production, but what impact does that have on designing machine controls and automation? Do controls engineers at industrial machine builders need to approach the technology differently? Does it change the way they receive the critical information that allows them to design the automation? How is lean different? Read our April 2008 cover story, "Lean Lets Value Swim Upstream."
Value streaming and customer pull are fundamental pillars in lean manufacturing. Based largely on the Toyota Production System and often confused with Motorola's Six Sigma principles, today's lean initiatives are designed to replace batch-and-queue mentality with flow production, but what impact does that have on designing machine controls and automation? Do controls engineers at industrial machine builders need to approach the technology differently? Does it change the way they receive the critical information that allows them to design the automation? How is lean different? Read our April 2008 cover story, "Lean Lets Value Swim Upstream."
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Mike Bacidore | Editor in Chief

Mike Bacidore is chief editor of Control Design and has been an integral part of the Endeavor Business Media editorial team since 2007. Previously, he was editorial director at Hughes Communications and a portfolio manager of the human resources and labor law areas at Wolters Kluwer. Bacidore holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He is an award-winning columnist, earning multiple regional and national awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He may be reached at [email protected] 

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