Lean manufacturing concepts eliminate wasteful practices while delivering increased value to the customer. These principles are simple to apply but require full employee participation and relentless ...

Because lean manufacturing reduces waste and increases the efficiency of your production line, it has an impact on other parts of the business. Converting to the new system requires adjustments within ...

It appears that like many Americans, drug company manufacturing ops are far from lean. In a long-term cross-industry study that uses inventory turns as an indicator, pharmaceutical companies hold the ...

Creating the refrigeration systems for the supermarkets, convenience and specialty stores, commercial/industrial applications and food service applications is a complicated manufacturing process, and ...

The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

Lean accounting concepts are designed to better reflect the financial performance of a company that has implemented lean manufacturing processes. These may include organizing costs by value stream, ...

Another wave of lockdowns will renew concerns about supply chains and shortages. As a grower of fresh mushrooms, for decades I experienced the difficulties of filling orders during wild fluctuations ...

In the 1990s, Tim Cook shifted Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to an incredibly efficient, contract-based manufacturing model. In this segment from the Industry Focus: Tech podcast, Dylan Lewis and Evan Niu talk ...

Cambridge Engineering nurtures a continuous-improvement culture where employees learn to see waste, hate it and have a passion for fixing it. Kevin Thompson made two videos last week and perhaps as ...

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