Where assembly plants build things like automobiles, cell phones, refrigerators, and medical instruments, process plants transform materials from one form or concentration to another using chemical and physical processing. These transforming processes result in consumer products like house paint, toothpaste, salad dressing, shampoo, carpeting, and breakfast cereal, or materials like plastic pellets and synthetic fibers which become inputs to other processes.
Peter King, founder and president of Lean Dynamics, has forty years experience applying systems engineering and industrial engineering concepts to a wide variety of process operations, the last twenty of that specializing in Lean applications.
