Most lean transformations are initiated because the business is not competitive selling its products or services. The product may be too costly to manufacture, suffer from poor quality or take too long to produce. In short, price for the value that the customer is willing to pay is too high. One of the best disciplines to analyze a product's value, using a holistic perspective, is Industrial Engineering. While the discipline has evolved to include other facets of engineering such as Product Design, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering and Logistics Engineering; this broad technical discipline is effective at studying a product's value from the office to the shop floor.