Saving thru lean manufacturing

Jan. 21, 2015

Volvo Trucks taps a variety of lean manufacturing tactics to help keep its truck production costs in check. Team Facilitator Keith Ousely at Volvo's New River Valley (NRV) plant provided visiting journalists with an overview of how new procedures crafted and instituted by his 14 member dashboard assembly group ended up accruing savings for the OEM - and eventually for customers - over time.

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Sean Kilcarr

Editor in Chief

Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

 

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