Home›Sources›The Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog)SourcesThe Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog)Web ReferenceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextTechnology and Engineering Atlas. "The Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/sources/src-leanblog-krafcik.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextTechnology and Engineering Atlas. (n.d.). The Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/sources/src-leanblog-krafcikCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{technologyandengineeringatlas-the-evolution-of-lean-production-25-year, author = {Technology and Engineering Atlas}, title = {The Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/sources/src-leanblog-krafcik}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationVerifiedFactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (8 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsPublisherWell-attestedLean BlogURLWell-attestedhttps://www.leanblog.org/2013/09/evolution-of-lean-production-25-years/NotesWell-attestedAn account of John Krafcik coining the term lean production in his 1988 MIT Sloan Management Review article Triumph of the Lean Production System, read and quoted directly.SourcesThe Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog)Lean BlogView the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (8 claims)This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicMethods, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.Sources, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.Well-attested7MethodsLean ManufacturingSourcesThe Evolution of Lean Production: 25 Years After John Krafcik Coined the Term (Lean Blog)General References1MethodsLean ManufacturingComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year