Apparel manufacturing industries rely heavily on timely production and deliveries. Failing to maintain efficiency leads to increased costs, production delays, and loss of competitiveness — something ...

Over the course of the first five entries to this seven-part series, a case has been made for the need of Lean practice to evolve. An industrially proven strategy, metric and process have been ...

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 ...

Lean and Six Sigma are complementary disciplines that, together, create a system which eliminates and prevents waste.

If you are looking for a finish line, continuous improvement is not the right playing field on which to seek satisfaction. Great gains are possible, and incremental improvements have a home, but so, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...