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.

It is an unfortunate fact: Many senior leaders and senior staff do not understand the fundamentals of lean. It’s one thing to recite knowledge of lean, and another to live lean every day—both on the ...

The MEP is a program administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The program’s mission is to ...

The moral of the story is if you want to be lean, look lean! As you evolve your learning, fix processes, do all the things ...

It’s not another "flavor of the month" or one more program that senior management tries in the quest for greater efficiency. Instead, lean enterprise offers significant company and customer benefits ...

Lean manufacturing, by its very nature, requires cooperation from all employees from management to the shop floor. Driving process improvements through lean processes can only be achieved with ...

TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California Manufacturing Technology Consulting® (CMTC) recently delivered Lean Training to RKL Technologies, Inc. (“RKL”) employees to help organize RKL’s shop floor ...

Yet, qualified manufacturing workers are perennially in short supply. This digest covers recent initiatives, public-private ...

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: A "Lean Manufacturing" workshop will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Unlimited Future, 1650 8th Ave. The concept of lean manufacturing is to establish a ...

If you listen to some industry experts, only high-tech industries in Massachusetts can survive the new wave of low-cost global competition. Proving that theory wrong, however, are companies ranging ...