ORGATEX provides innovative and effective Lean Visual Management Tools and Solutions to manufacturing and service organizations applying Lean principles and processes. “Lean Manufacturing” or “Lean Production” is the optimal way to produce goods and services by systematically removing waste and implementing flow, as opposed to batch and queue. Lean manufacturing is a generic process management philosophy known for its focus on reduction of the seven wastes to improve overall customer value. For many, Lean is a set of “tools” that assist in the steady elimination of waste, or muda. As waste is eliminated, quality improves and production time and costs are reduced. Examples of such tools are Value Stream Mapping, Five S, Kanban (pull system) and Visual Management. A second approach to Lean Manufacturing, promoted by Toyota, focuses on improving the “flow” or smoothness of work, thereby steadily eliminating the mura, or “unevenness” through the system, rather than on waste reduction. Proven techniques to improve flow include production leveling and “pull” production by means of Kanban and Heijunka boxes.