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All are involved, customers and Everyone is involved, including customers and

5 including suppliers suppliers

Everyone is involved at the facility; use policy deployment to get all involved in CI planning Problems do not

4 repeat

Level 3, but all are involved; CI is recorded and Policy and methods are documented; some problems

3 posted repeat

Policy and methods in place; done by engineers, supers, and mgrs. Policy and methods are documented; problems repeat but after a significant time

2 span

Policy, but no methods to implement Policy in place; many problems repeat quickly; no clearly defined methods

1 The Five Precursors to Lean—An Evaluation Matrix (Continued)
No policy exists policy; problems repeat

0 No

Needed Trait 4 - Mature continuous improvement philosophy 5 - Strong proven techniques to standardize TABLE 19-1

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