LED Specific Objectives: Promote Lean Enterprise principles and practices, provide training in the areas of Lean Enterprise and to be a source of Advanced Manufacturing information to ASQ members and others.

Area of Operation - The Lean Enterprise Division intends to be a strong advocate in the following areas:

1.1.   Eliminating wastes due to: overproduction, motion, inventory, transportation, waiting, underutilized people, defects, and over-processing
1.2.   Robotics, automation and touch-free inspection
1.3.   Advanced materials, modeling, design, and rapid prototyping
1.4.   Computer applications in Lean Enterprise
1.5.   Strategy, management and communication
1.6.   Cost management strategies as part of competing in the global manufacturing economy
1.7.   Energy and the environmental issues in Lean Enterprise
1.8.   Reducing costs and cycle time in any process or operation
1.9.   Building blocks of a Lean organization including: change management, value; stream mapping, workplace organization, visual systems, plant layout, quality at the source, batch size reduction, teams, quick changeover, point of use storage,total productive maintenance, cellular/flow, pull/kanban, and continuous improvement
1.10. Other aspects of Lean such as just-in-time, kaizen, autonomation, and value added versus non-value added activities
1.11. Agile manufacturing, Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM)
1.12. Quality and its role in Advanced Manufacturing
1.13. Role of quality professionals and Lean Enterprise

LED Membership Benefits:

Besides being a part of ASQ's fastest growing forum, helping it to achieve its short term and immediate medium term goals described elsewhere, members benefit from networking with a community of like minded professionals. Members are invited to participate in helping with the newsletter, web-site, conference/workshop, recruiting new members, planning sessions, holding volunteer leadership positions, etc.