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Slide 17: Lean •Program (IMVP) identified a new industrial paradigm they called "Lean", emerging from the Japanese automobile producers. •in particular, Toyota's Lean production is replacing mass production. • throughout many industries including aerospace - an industry that has been characterized prior to 1990 as a craft production system with a mass production mentality is turning to Lean.

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  1. adjective Newly formed or just coming into prominence; emergent: emerging markets; the emerging states of Africa.

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