You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

When we think of Lean Six Sigma implementations, we typically first consider process flow, value streams and opportunities for significant financial improvement. Often missed are the key ramifications ...

Today’s productivity improvement goals, and the significant disparity in wages between U.S. manufacturing and lower-cost countries, require shops to use as much of a machine operator’s idle time as is ...

Essential Lean Learning is designed to provide a comprehensive online interactive training program for Lean Manufacturing awareness, and has been developed to provide rapid knowledge transfer of basic ...

Ms. Peach used Kaizen, a process improvement strategy within lean manufacturing, within her division’s hospitals. Kaizen encompassed a three-day workshop in which front-line workers in the emergency ...