Kevin Maddy has 27 years manufacturing experience, the past 14 years as an executive specializing in turn-around management, organizational reengineering, and the implementation of lean manufacturing ...

You might have heard about lean manufacturing techniques and how they’ve helped companies such as Toyota streamline their processes, reduce waste, minimize costs and increase productivity. But if ...

Lean manufacturing is a production system that eliminates waste through all steps in the process to build a product. Companies using lean systems work to reduce costs, inventory and cycle time -- the ...

Eliminating waste is never a bad thing, but if you’re already running lean, you may not need to pay for high-priced consultants to tell you what you know. Lean manufacturing techniques originated at ...

After losing much of their business to COVID-19 restaurant closures, the owners of Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen didn’t flinch. During the past several years, Ben Hartman and Rachel Hershberger have ...

UK industry needs to emulate its US counterparts and adopt 'lean manufacturing' techniques. The sector's willingness to help itself is now more important than calling for government intervention. This ...

Manufacturing first embraced Lean and Six Sigma techniques — tools and strategies to improve business processes — in the 1980s, and the concepts are gaining ground in truck maintenance shops. Those in ...

Can Lean techniques, mastered on the factory floor, drive costs from the front office? How much money is your company losing due to wasted effort and low productivity of knowledge workers employed in ...

Lean, the business philosophy that has driven Toyota’s relentless rise to the top of the auto industry, is making significant inroads into banking and financial services. And the results are ...

Lean management has increasingly become a method of choice for hospitals seeking a creative solution to cost and quality problems. However, its manufacturing roots can make Lean a challenging process ...

The increase in risk and capex to exploit new reserves in ultradeepwater areas is causing the offshore industry to adopt lean management techniques. Aug. 15, 2003 Click on the pdf link below to view ...

Heavy metal was heard loud and clear Wednesday at the Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills, but it had nothing to do with hard-edge music. Instead, employees and managers from manufacturers all across the ...