“We are different. Every job is unique.” “We cannot expect teamwork from skilled trades. Their work is too specialized.” “We must keep our people busy at all times. That’s why inventory is so ...

For manufacturers seeking to improve operational performance, understanding how waste appears on the shop floor — and how to ...

Lean has played a significant role for the past few decades in driving efficiency across manufacturing organizations by providing people with the data and methods for eliminating waste, improving ...

Lean manufacturing is a production theory that emphasizes the elimination of waste in all forms. Resource expenditures that do not contribute to the value of a product are wasteful in a lean ...

If you haven’t started applying lean construction techniques to your sheet metal shop, it’s not too late to start and get ahead of your competition. A few years ago, many ductwork fabrication shop ...

Join this webinar to discover how manufacturers can achieve optimal inventory levels, preventing assembly line shutdowns due to missing parts.

FlexNet Lean Material Flow software for global manufacturing operations management (MOM) was developed in collaboration with Accenture to support Lean Manufacturing. It is designed to better ...

Lean manufacturing guru Taiichi Ohno once said, "Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced." A lean manufacturing company vigorously attacks waste in all its forms, which in turn, ...

Lean is a word marketing people and executives love. “We’re Lean,” they often proclaim. But far too often, the words are superficial fluff masking the grim reality of an organization tolerant of waste ...

Across industries such as food processing, pulp and paper, ceramics, engineered wood, biomass, and chemicals, manufacturers ...

In the context of increasing global industrial competition and intensifying customer demands, there has been considerable pressure on U.S. small- and medium-sized (SME) manufacturers in recent years ...