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Keith Groves is a Manufacturing Consultant for the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services (UT CIS), part of the MEP National NetworkTM. He is an expert on Lean Methodologies and Business Transformation.
The lean manufacturing movement came out of a desire to reduce waste and inefficiencies and improve productivity in the operation. Many manufacturers have also