Lean manufacturing first came to the attention of manufacturers in the West with the 1990 publication of The Machine That Changed the World, which reflected the findings of MIT's five-year, $5 million ...

Lean manufacturing is a methodology that focuses on minimizing waste within manufacturing systems while simultaneously maximizing productivity. Waste is seen as anything that customers do not believe ...

IT a roadblock to progress? Never, you say. How can that be when IT lives and breathes innovation? Who else but IT dared to usher open source, XML, SOA, and cloud computing out of the high-tech labs ...

A lean-governed, rule-based AI system deployed at a 33-press injection molding facility cut scrap by 67 percent, downtime by ...

Lean has revolutionized manufacturing. It all started with cars. Lean is a type of manufacturing and a way of organizing a business. It is both a philosophy and a collection of specific methods. Many ...

Lean manufacturing and green manufacturing are not always considered at the same time as companies plan their factory improvement initiatives. Often, in “going green,” a company will aim for a certain ...

Ian Wright joined CarBuzz as an automotive journalist and photographer in 2018. His career started with specialist publications, covering everything from Harley-Davidson to Ferrari. Before writing for ...

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 ...

Lean and Six Sigma are two powerful business improvement systems that are rapidly being deployed across multiple manufacturing and service sectors. This Environmental Professional’s Guide to Lean and ...

The last few years have shaken the assumptions of the manufacturing industry. Supply chains and labor sources that had been dependable and robust crumbled before our eyes as the coronavirus spread. It ...

In a turn-around that may seem surprising, bicycle manufacturing is returning Europe. This reverses the previous trend which saw manufacturing move to low-wage economies. Driven by the need for ...

Lean’s three guiding principles involve purpose, process and people. “The primary purpose of any organization—and first step in any Lean thought process—is to correctly specify the value that the ...