Quinsigamond Community College's recent report on the "Status of the Manufacturing Industry" indicates that the implementation of lean enterprise practices (also known as The Toyota Production System) ...

Fast forward to today and, for the majority of manufacturing companies, the need to maximize efficiency, especially in light of ongoing economic and geopolitical uncertainty, remains a top priority.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. The operational excellence methodology known as “lean” is centered on preserving ...

To successfully implement lean material handling in a facility, you need to start with the right equipment, says Dick Ward, executive vice president of the Material Handling Institute of America (MHIA ...

If you are a lean manufacturer, does that mean that you are a lean enterprise? At the recent Lean Accounting Summit put on by Lean Frontiers, Cheryl Jekiel, author of Lean HR, gave a keynote ...

In this ongoing series, The Fix, we look to problems faced by real companies and how they solved them. The Challenge: Manufacturing errors and delays were racking up at NextDayFlyers.com—and founder ...

LEAN manufacturing, and the lean concept in general, aims to provide more value for customers with fewer resources; effectively eliminating waste. The process of reducing waste covers a wide range ...