If you are looking for a finish line, continuous improvement is not the right playing field on which to seek satisfaction. Great gains are possible, and incremental improvements have a home, but so, ...

We have often discussed the question of whether the ability to successfully implement a successful lean initiative is something like being able to dunk a basketball or bench press 300 pounds: One can ...

Lean manufacturing aims to incorporate processes and attitudes to increase efficiency and streamline operations and overhead, resulting in cost savings, increased profits and an engaged, motivated ...

Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principals are used to improve processes and create efficiencies in the overall manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing is used to minimize waste, while saving costs ...

You might have heard about lean manufacturing techniques and how they’ve helped companies such as Toyota streamline their processes, reduce waste, minimize costs and increase productivity. But if ...

Continuously optimizing manufacturing operations around concepts like OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) and Lean Manufacturing may seem outdated in the age of Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet ...

Digital information technologies can help companies enhance their lean manufacturing strategies. Tim Stuart, founder and president at Visual Decisions Inc., used a FitBit to illustrate how. “FitBit ...

Once you have declared “we are a lean company,” this means that you have set your business off in the direction of continuous improvement through the elimination of waste. In the beginning this is ...

GE Aviation is targeting CFM HPT blade manufacturing in just 10 days, down from a 35-day timeline in 2019. Credit: GE As commercial aerospace business pressures mount in the form of growing inflation, ...