It is imperative to predict or at least know the quantified financial benefit of the Lean Journey. Often, firms can show improvement in terms of cycle times and setup times, but the expression and ...

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. (March 26, 2014) -- Air Force aircraft maintenance mechanics recently teamed up with depot employees to standardize processes for work performed on a satellite communications ...

We quite often get calls, or find ourselves in a conversation where somebody is inevitably asking, “What’s the leanest way to lay out my factory”? This is always a delicate subject because it is ...

Barry Arbuckle wasn’t totally sold on the idea. Sure, lean philosophies worked in Japanese manufacturing companies, but he wasn’t building cars. Could those waste-reducing principles really organize ...

Lets face it, we all have that one spot in our business that we know is a problem, and we spend copious amounts of time talking about it, arguing about it, and usually in the end, we walk away with ...

In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...

Colin Parris is CTO & SVP of GE Digital, a global leader in digital technology and empowering digital transformation efforts at scale. As you refine your business strategy for 2021, you may be asking ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. For the last six years, Jim Macejkovic, executive vice ...

For almost every company or organization, continued growth isn’t just important, it’s essential. Without growth, profitability may decrease. Without growth, employee satisfaction and customer ...

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 ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- U.S. Army Special Operations Command is teaming up with Lean Six Sigma to provide an overall organizational culture change to reduce waste in the work place. Instead of making your ...