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Chris Harris is co-author with Rick Harris and Earl Wilson of the LEI workbook Making Materials Flow: a lean material-handling guide for operations, production-control, and engineering professionals, which received a 2005 Shingo Research Prize. Chris began his lean training on the assembly line at Toyota’s Georgetown, KY, plant where he learned the proper use of lean tools such as takt time, standardized work, production status boards, and the andon system. He continued his lean training at Toyota Tsusho America where he worked with returnable container systems, kanban systems, parts supermarkets, and milk runs. Chris, a six sigma green belt, also has been a production supervisor and a corporate buyer. He currently aids companies implementing lean through Harris Lean Systems.
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