What is lean manufacturing? Lean manufacturing is a series of methods designed to reduce or minimize the waste of labour and material resources while maintaining or increasing levels of production and maximizing profits. Lean manufacturing offers a lot of benefits to woodworking shops. It ensures that activities like over-production, over-processing, motion, transportation, waiting, inventory, and scraps and defects are drastically reduced. Read more about the principles of lean manufacturing in Introduction to Lean Manufacturing. How…