A lean-governed, rule-based AI system deployed at a 33-press injection molding facility cut scrap by 67 percent, downtime by ...

Lean and Six Sigma are complementary disciplines that, together, create a system which eliminates and prevents waste.

Companies adopting a Lean philosophy strive to remove or shorten time spent on activities that the customer doesn’t value. For example, although steps like estimating and makeready are thought of as ...

This Lean and Chemicals Toolkit describes practical strategies for using Lean manufacturing—the production system developed by Toyota—to reduce chemical wastes while improving the operational and ...

We continue in our series on Lean Construction and the seven major “wastes” found in our effort to construct quality that is safe, productive and profitable. Let’s examine the waste that can come from ...

In this ongoing series, The Fix, we look to problems faced by real companies and how they solved them. The Fix: Handmaker began doing research on how to improve manufacturing processes in a holistic ...

Research has found that Lean methods improve environmental performance, even without intentionally adding environmental considerations. Some examples of these environmental benefits are listed in Box ...