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AShigeo Shingo
BFujio Cho
CTaiichi Ohno
DJohn Krafcik
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Correct answer: D. John Krafcik
Krafcik introduced the label Lean in his 1988 article on the lean production system, which later displaced the older label JIT manufacturing.
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