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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2006--In response to industry demand for skilled, results-driven professionals who have the background and skill base needed to initiate and sustain ...

No survey of modern automotive manufacturing can possibly overlook the “lean” techniques and cultural values developed in Toyota’s Production System, so it was inevitable that The Magical Mystery ...

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 ...

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 ...

FLEXcon COO Michael Engel stands in front of a mural showing some of the products that are made with the company’s films and adhesives. Winning over employees helped FLEXcon save $8.2M Lean ...

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 ...

The alpha geek consultants at the McKinsey Quarterly are out with an interesting new research paper that says app developers have to get lean – as in, adopt lean manufacturing techniques. That’s right ...