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Table 6

Statements on lean program deployment

“Yes, we have a Lean program. It was called the XPS, the X [company name] production system. It has now called [company name] Performance System. And it is adopted by Toyota and different industries across the pharmaceutical world. So, we had a study about 10 years ago and came up with the [company name] production system. And we have evolved. And it is a way of looking at our waste and identifying opportunities to drive performance. One important application has been waste elimination and lean-ing our changeovers through observation and analysis and SMED [single Minute Exchange of Die] activities” (P5)
“So yes, we do have a Lean program. We started our Lean program somewhere around 2000. It started at that time as an operational excellence program where we trained people, and it was an external consortium that we brought in to train people. We created Black Belts; we created Master Black Belts, and they were trained in Lean and Six Sigma. And then, eventually, we simplified it into XPS. And it was based on Lean, Zero defects, zero waste, and zero accidents. And now again, we are more moving towards more Lean and the XPS because that is what our industry needs” (P6)
“Certainly, we do. I am trying to think how long have we been looking at Lean. We have had it in some form, I would say, for 15 to 20 years at least” (P7)

Source(s): Authors’ own work