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Overview Lean Manufacturing is a concept which is largely derived from the Toyota Management System. The implementation of the associated techniques aligned with a philosophy of Sustainable Continuous Improvement is necessary to any Manufacturing organisation which would like to be considered World Class. The main Lean principals have been adopted and applied to manufacturing processes the world over and these principals are now commonplace in all blue chip companies. As such lean should not be considered to be a program or short term cost reduction project, but a total mindset, a culture and the way the company thinks and operates....

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And Component Sense was born… There was an unprecedented explosion in the electronics industry from 1999 to the end of the year 2000. Kenny our CEO was working in broadline electronic component distribution at the time and soon after created Component Sense. We have captured in this blog entry some of the key events of this exciting time and how they came to influence the values and ethos of Component Sense. It may also prove useful as lessons from the past can help us deal with the challenges of the future. "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are...

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Component Sense CEO Kenny McGee took part in the EBN live chat yesterday (15 August 2013), which was hosted by Steve Martin (executive vice president of sales from Components Direct) and Hailey Lynne McKeefry (Editor in Chief at Datacenter Acceleration). This post has been created to abridge the discussion, remove unanswered or topics that weren’t discussed, in an effort to provide a more clear understanding. Slight grammatical changes have been made in order to create a sense of flow, as this was originally written in real time. If you wish to see the original chat dialogue, please visit: http://www.ebnonline.com/dialogue.asp?doc_id=266481 The...