The short answer is a resounding yes! You can be a 2-person job shop or a 5000-person aircraft manufacturer and lean manufacturing principles apply equally.

Lean manufacturing is a philosophy of continuous improvement (kaizen) with the goal of providing extraordinary value to the customer through a process of eliminating waste, (activities that do not add value), from every aspect of the operation. True lean manufacturing principles empower every individual in the organization to continuously improve value-generating activities and eliminate non-value-generating activities.