LEAN - many, many moons ago when I was a civvy in a factory we called it 'Time and Motion Study'. How quickly and efficiently could you move a raw product from the point of delivery, through the production process and out to the despatch bay.
Back then in my industry we had 3 factories and over 1000 employees in each - by the end of the time and motion study we had one factory and only 300 people. The bitter twist was that production output was up by 30%!!! Ohhh bugger!!!
That was mostly due to CNC machine computerisation and mechanisation though.
Ahhh its so good to see the wheel going round again!!!!!!