Lean manufacturing is a principle or philosophy that many businesses follow in order to create efficiency and maximize profit. In lean manufacturing, all of the efforts of the company are directed ...

Five colour-coded charts are grouped together on noticeboards throughout Barclay Chemicals manufacturing’s facility at Damastown in west Dublin. These dashboards, as the staff call them, outline the ...

Just ask Val Zanchuk, president of Graphicast Inc., a 29-employee foundry and machine shop in Jaffrey, N.H. The entrepreneur was able to make this dream a reality by adopting the Lean Manufacturing ...

Dave Drew, group pharmaceutical director of Matcon (Moreton-in-Marsh, UK), says that lean production is essential for drugmakers to survive in the current environment. Pharmaceutical companies today ...

To remain competitive, manufacturers must utilize "lean manufacturing" — operating with maximum productivity and process efficiency, while generating quality products. Although establishing processes ...

Lean philosophy has long been propagated as a success story of large, automotive companies with Toyota frequently quoted as a shiny example of a success in "becoming lean". Lean philosophy has long ...

The phrase "lean manufacturing" may have a funny ring to it -- as if a company was skimping on material or the workers were all registered flyweights. What it really means is to boil down a ...

Discover how work cells streamline manufacturing by enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and minimizing waste, with real-world examples of successful implementation.

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 ...