Continuous Improvement Applied to Safety at Toyota
Photo: Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing A recent article at EHS Today explains how a Toyota plant that manufactures forklifts in Columbus,...
Month: October 2014
Lean Featured in GE Capital TV Commercial
Mark Graban over at Lean Blog recently wrote about a GE Capital TV commercial that includes the Lean turnaround process in...
Five Essential Lean Tools for Manufacturing
The Right Lean Tools for Manufacturing Lean manufacturing has been growing in popularity for quite some time now. While every...
Design For Six Sigma (DFSS)
Most people are familiar with the normal Six Sigma methodologies that are used to help make improvements to products or...
Basic Overview of Kanban
Basic Overview of Kanban Learning about Kanban can be a great way to help improve just about any production process....
What Does a Lean Hospital Look Like?
Lean manufacturing principles may have originated in manufacturing industries, but in recent years they’ve been used quite effectively in the...
One-Piece Flow – A Lean Strategy Applied to Clothing Making
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Pdpics Janska, a women’s clothing company that strives to keep all of its manufacturing in the U.S., recently...
Using Lean to Reach Your Potential
Lean methodologies can be used on an organizational level, but also on an individual level. You can use lean to...