We embrace the principles of lean (value, value stream, flow, pull, and perfection) to achieve business sustainability and competitiveness, not with others but with ourselves.  Reducing waste in the form of machine breakdowns or non-value-adding activities and achieving advancements in data collection, sensors, robotics and automation, and increasing computing power will enable advanced analytics that give established methods a new edge, and thus, bringing greater cost-savings to consumers, and improving the margins for the enterprises.