Lean manufacturing is an inventory-management and manufacturing strategy that companies implement to reduce costs, increase productivity and gain a competitive advantage. The techniques lean ...

Joe Pilat shares how lean manufacturing improved his electronics business, boosting efficiency, cutting costs, and minimizing waste. Learn his lean management tips!

Quinsigamond Community College’s recent report on the “Status of the Manufacturing Industry” indicates that the implementation of lean enterprise practices (also known as The Toyota Production System) ...

The Lean model of process improvement originated in Japan with the Toyota Production System. Many hospitals and health systems have found the model’s principles of eliminating non-value added activity ...

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 ...

You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

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 ...

In the upturn, just like the downturn, we need to do more with even less resources. Lean is a tool for increased efficiency and doing more with less use type of resource. Lean is a proven way to cut ...

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 ...

Companies that have utilized lean manufacturing principles know a thing or two about cutting waste. With inauguration day behind us, we’ve already seen some of the first big moves from the new ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link How many of you, and your companies, are more digitally literate than you were 12 months ago due to the ongoing pandemic? I'd wager there are a ...

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