What other impacts have these principles had?
I think we've conclusively proved that if you LEAN too far you fall over.
Are the engineers happier in this environment?
Mostly, but only because they've all PVR'd.
Seriously though, there's a thread about it here with some good points on:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=256895
As has been said above, and as is pointed out in post number 2 on the thread I've linked to, it isn't really the LEAN team's fault if a decision had already been made to reduce manpower by so much, and they had to make the best of whatever was left. We definitely
are undermanned and underresourced for what we asked to do. However, I think you'll agree that the way everyone seems to end up blaming the poor LEAN team for decisions about manpower that had already been taken, and at a much higher level, was a masterstroke of passing the buck by the top brass!
Dave