Lean is a set of principles and tools that grew out of groundbreaking production strategies of the Japanese automobile industry. The core principles of Lean are designed to eliminate waste from company's processes - waste that slows delivery, causes confusion, or adds cost to your products or services. By employing the Lean tool set, a company can dramatically increase its competitiveness and profitability.

Since its inception in the automotive industry, Lean has greatly evolved to include tools and principles that can be apply on an enterprise-wide basis. These principles are: specify value in terms of the customer's needs, identify the value stream for each product or service, create continuous flow through the value stream, produce goods or services according to the pull from the customer, and continue to always improve and seek perfection. By deploying Lean techniques based on these principles, companies will not only improve production, but sales, product development, office work, and customer support as well.

Allegro offers several avenues for companies to experience the power of Lean. From introductory classes, to complete turnkey business consolidation, Allegro team members have taught and implemented the Lean principles in businesses across the Globe. We also offer Lean training using our unique Fast Forward approach - a blending of instruction with Kaizen to speed both learning and results.

From Automotive, Aerospace, Electronics, Pharmaceutical, High/Low tech production, to Banking and Healthcare, Allegro has the hands-on experience to make your lean transformation a success.

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