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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

A work crew typically consisted of three to half a dozen men (and they were all men) who were task organized to strip the coal off the seam face, shovel it into mining carts, and move those carts to the transport system. The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.”

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Reshoring Or Not, What is Manufacturing? 4 Questions to Ponder with Real American Manufacturers

GlobalTranz

The ‘ole “garbage in; garbage out” (GIGO) adage definitely applies here. Jovan Cosmetics: Basic MRP as shown above. All MRP sheets were given to Purchasing to manage. 4 Questions to Ponder with Real American Manufacturers appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. It was called, “ The Short List ”.