This document provides an overview of Lean Manufacturing concepts and how they relate to maintenance and reliability practices. It discusses the 5S methodology, which involves sorting, straightening, shining, standardizing, and sustaining a workspace. When applied to a preventive maintenance (PM) program, 5S can eliminate unnecessary tasks, reassign tasks to other teams, and optimize the tasks that remain. The document also examines the seven wastes (muda) targeted by Lean - overproduction, transportation, waiting, inventory, motion, overprocessing, and defects. For each waste, examples are given of how it manifests in maintenance work and strategies for eliminating the waste. The goals of Lean Manufacturing to eliminate waste are shown to parallel the
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