From Manufacturing...For Manufacturing. Lean Technologies is rooted in the shop floor where the company's cornerstone software product, Thrive, was developed as a manufacturing management solution. Thrive started as a tool to assist managers in the application of lean techniques and has developed into a full-featured software package that links all aspects of the manufacturing environment. Quality, Continuous Improvement, Maintenance CMMS, MRO Inventory, Safety, and Gage Tracking can all be found in Thrive. Thrive = Software for the Shopfloor