Case: the LEGO Group: Publish or Protect? Publish, Patent or Trade secret? Introduction: The LEGO Group are maintaining their competitive advantage through two main direction which are having more intelligence modular design and product introduction, such as new product line and having manufacturing process innovation that can reduce cost, shorten manufacturing cycle and improve the product quality. For manufacturing innovation LEGO are introducing new technology into their process. The project
QUESTION 1 1. What is the classic process followed in manufacturing airplanes? In which cases this process can be different? Five typical manufacturing processes (project, job shop, batch, line flow and continuous flow) have presented during the lean management course. An Airplane is the product of highly-efficient cooperation across the company’s global supply and manufacturing chains, as well as its decades of innovation for the air transport sector. This sections details how an airplane modern