For manufacturers seeking to improve operational performance, understanding how waste appears on the shop floor — and how to ...

You can increase the efficiency of your manufacturing operations and cut costs by adopting lean manufacturing concepts. Implementing a program of lean manufacturing identifies sources of waste and ...

Across industries such as food processing, pulp and paper, ceramics, engineered wood, biomass, and chemicals, manufacturers ...

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 ...

Lean manufacturing starts with “buy in” at the shop-floor level, by individual workers. Those who do the work need to be fully invested in the process for it to succeed. Lean manufacturing is perhaps ...

In practice, lean manufacturing is an operating philosophy that yields a number of long-term benefits that aren’t always obvious to those who are considering adopting it. The first thing most ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

Hess Corp is taking a page out of Toyota’s manufacturing book as it looks to cut costs and thrive at $40 oil. Automaker Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE: TM) disrupted the automotive industry when it developed ...

Julian Bass receives funding via University of Salford from Innovate UK as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Add Energy Ltd. He is Chair of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, Manchester ...

Matt Mong, VP Market Innovation at Adeaca, is the creator of the Project Business Automation category designed for project-based companies. For years the industrial sectors, no matter how specific and ...