Lean Production, which means lean or streamlined production, aims to bring economic recovery to companies in Europe that are under pressure. Only the "lean" company will succeed in reducing capital commitment, minimizing costs, increasing flexibility, maximizing profits, and delivering customer-oriented products more quickly through the integration of technical and business functions. This practitioner book provides a good overview and practical introduction to the strategy of "lean manufacturing" with directly applicable concepts that the author has implemented as a business consultant in companies. Lean Production is aimed at company leaders, members of the technical and business management, as well as controllers; production managers and heads of design and development in companies, material management leaders, and others.