Many have seen the success lean manufacturing can have on a company’s bottom line. Toyota Motor Corp. is one of the greatest implementers of lean and knows how culture can significantly increase a ...

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The Toyota Way principles can work in any culture, but it all starts with leaders who are passionate and committed. Since Dr. James Womack coined the term “lean” in Lean Thinking back in the 1990s, ...

Editor's Note: Carl Livesay will be speaking on the topic of sustaining lean gains at the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit, which will be held June 26-28 in Indianapolis. There are many ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When Roy Jordan founded North Forest Office Space in 1982 with his wife, Patty, he needed to understand all facets of constructing buildings. Business survival required utilizing time ...

California-based Pankow Builders' Lean initiative has been in the works since 2004. Beginning with original membership in the Northern California CoP, Pankow began developing its Lean strategy through ...

You’ve stocked up on basics and feel like you’re ready to implement on the factory floor, but how do you begin to “think” Lean? While equipping yourself with knowledge and strategy is the first step ...

While the advice given in the book Lean In helped push women to change their habits, research shows that more structural change is needed before the playing field between men and women is leveled, ...

Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Music Festival was the talk of hip hop after eight people died and hundreds more were injured on Nov. 5. The tragedy around the Houston rapper brings up the darker side of ...