Pharmaceutical companies are facing increased competition, cost pressures, and a need to improve the performance of their manufacturing operations. Lean manufacturing offers methods, tools, and ...

Lean manufacturing techniques have come to hospitals in North Carolina via the automotive industry. Read how lean manufacturing tools help hospital costs.

Kent, England – Lean 5S Products UK, a leading designer and manufacturer of visual management boards, is proud to announce the streamlining of lean manufacturing with the launch of shadow boards ...

One of the leaders of lean manufacturing, and the man who tutored Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda on the Toyota Production System, Nampachi Hayashi, died June 21.

If you haven’t started applying lean construction techniques to your sheet metal shop, it’s not too late to start and get ahead of your competition. A few years ago, many ductwork fabrication shop ...

The new tool applies lean techniques to help address the limitation of cluster tools, said Intevac. "Cluster tools are wasteful of space within the fab, are prone to throughput bottlenecks, must be ...

Lean manufacturing tools have been around for more than 25 years, and they continue to deliver value to manufacturers. In fact, lean is essentially a focus on value-add across the product ...

WorkNC improves lean manufacturing at Reich Tool & Design Reich Tool & Design Inc is an expanding company, and is currently doubling the size of its factory in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, USA. It is ...

We look behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s Czechia assembly plant, where change is baked into processes to ensure products are built right and always improving ...