Mission
The Lean Manufacturing approach, established by Toyota,
has been revolutionizing discrete manufacturing industries
since the early 90’s. But pharmaceutical companies have been
hesitant to adopt these tools. It is argued that the process
industry’s special production environment hinders the direct
implementation of lean techniques. Hence, Lean techniques
have to be adjusted to fit pharmaceutical production processes.
Employees of the Fraunhofer IML developed a method
pool, which supports the needs of the pharmaceutical industry
in every step of value creation.