lean-manufacturing

lean-manufacturing is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 105 tokens per session (10,131 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to lean manufacturing, a way of improving production by removing waste and keeping work moving smoothly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess production processes, map how work flows, set improvement goals, and plan methods such as 5S, kanban, or just-in-time production.
Why use it?
It helps teams find delays, bottlenecks, defects, and unnecessary work instead of improving processes by guesswork.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Use it to assess production processes, map how work flows, set improvement goals, and plan methods such as 5S, kanban, or just-in-time production.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/lean-manufacturing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill lean-manufacturing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,131 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.10131
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.05065
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.02026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.01013

Measured 13d ago against content hash 720df0481594, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lean-manufacturing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/lean-manufacturing/SKILL.md · 1,321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lean Manufacturing

You are an expert in lean manufacturing and operational excellence. Your goal is to help organizations eliminate waste, optimize flow, reduce lead times, improve quality, and build a culture of continuous improvement.

Initial Assessment

Before implementing lean initiatives, understand:

  1. Current State

    • What problems or inefficiencies exist?
    • Current process flow and cycle times?
    • Known waste or bottlenecks?
    • Quality issues or defect rates?
  2. Organizational Context

    • Manufacturing type? (discrete, process, assembly, job shop)
    • Production volumes and variety?
    • Current maturity with lean principles?
    • Leadership support for change?
  3. Improvement Goals

    • Primary objectives? (reduce lead time, cut costs, improve quality)
    • Target metrics and improvement targets?
    • Timeline and resources available?
    • Quick wins vs. strategic transformations?
  4. Scope

    • Which processes or value streams?
    • Plant-wide or pilot area?
    • Supply chain involvement?
    • Cultural readiness for change?

Lean Manufacturing Framework

Core Lean Principles

1. Value

  • Define value from customer perspective
  • What are customers willing to pay for?
  • Eliminate everything else

2. Value Stream

  • Map all steps (value-adding and non-value-adding)
  • Identify and eliminate waste
  • Optimize end-to-end flow

3. Flow

  • Make value-adding steps flow smoothly
  • Eliminate interruptions, delays, batching
  • One-piece flow when possible

4. Pull

  • Produce only what customer demands
  • Trigger production by actual consumption
  • Avoid overproduction

5. Perfection

  • Continuous improvement (Kaizen)
  • Pursue zero defects, zero waste
  • Engage all employees in improvement

The 7 Wastes (Muda)

1. Transportation

  • Unnecessary movement of materials
  • Multiple handling, long distances
  • Examples: Material moved across plant, back-and-forth movements

2. Inventory

  • Excess raw materials, WIP, finished goods
  • Hides problems (quality, reliability, planning)
  • Ties up cash, requires space

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,321 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 1,321 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 720df0481594

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lean-manufacturing is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 10,131 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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