Lean manufacturing centers around minimizing waste and reducing costs through automation and continuous improvements in operational efficiency. Lean manufacturing relies on integrated technological ...

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 ...

On a roll for over 50 years now, Toyota Motor Corp. is the logical first place to look for a glimpse into the future of lean manufacturing. There a new generation is gearing up to spread the tried-and ...

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 ...

(April 19, 2004) — A business leader in the plastics industry needs guts, fortitude and gumption to plunge into the world of lean manufacturing. Often, it seems, the world of lean fails to draw a ...

Buffalo, N.Y. -- The Carbide/Graphite Group of Niagara Falls, FMC Corp. of Buffalo and Avery Denison of Buffalo have partnered with the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness ...

I did a webinar for IndustryWeek late in 2012 titled “How To Implement Lean Manufacturing -- And Virtually Guarantee Failure.” Many who watched my webinar were surprised when I stated that the most ...

Lean manufacturing is a strategy for reducing waste – in materials, movement, waiting time, processing and defects. While robots are not innately lean, since they could be used to automate a faster ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The cloud-based lean manufacturing solution provider Leading2Lean today released a new, original video series called "People of the Plant Floor," created to shine a light ...