Journal of Business, July 13th, 2006
L A Aluminum Casting Co., a Hayden, Idaho, aluminum foundry that makes custom, cast-aluminum parts, is adding equipment and remodeling its plant as the company converts to a lean-manufacturing process.
In lean manufacturing, a company can streamline its production process, as L A Aluminum will do, while doing such other things as implementing just-in-time inventory management, which involves receiving raw materials just before they're needed.
Dave Bullock, the company's foundry manager, says the company has bought two new induction furnaces that will replace eight gas-fired furnaces the comp...
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