The Benefits of Lean Manufacturing
As a management philosophy, lean manufacturing is all about continuous elimination and reduction of waste in the production and business...
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The Visual Workplace
The need for continuing improvement in the workplace grew over the years with new methods and systems introduced by organizational...
How To Use a Kanban Board
The Kanban board has been used extensively in many Japanese businesses for many decades. Tracing back its history, it was...
Lean Six Sigma Professionals and Their Future
The Future of Lean Six Sigma Professionals Lean Six Sigma is the combined art and science of eliminating waste and...
LEAN Customer Service – Customer Service Could Learn A Thing or Two From Lean
Just this week, a Lean discussion in my favorite LinkedIn professional group cropped up and talked about the eight types...
Does 3-D Printing Have a Role in Lean Manufacturing?
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Subhasish Panigrahi A lean workplace seeks ways to make itself more productive and more efficient, and a recent...
5 Steps for Lean Manufacturing Implementation
Whether you are implementing lean manufacturing techniques for the first time, or you are beginning a new project and you...
Continuous Improvement in Sports, Teaching and Beyond
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Kerelin Molina When we talk about continuous improvement—sometimes referred to by the Japanese term kaizen—we often discuss it...
Safety Lean Manufacturing – 5 Ways to Combine Safety and Lean
Improving and Implementing Safety Lean Manufacturing When people look at facility improvement opportunities they often look at process improvement methodologies,...
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,...
