Lean manufacturing is an inventory-management and manufacturing strategy that companies implement to reduce costs, increase productivity and gain a competitive advantage. The techniques lean ...
Lean manufacturing guru Taiichi Ohno once said, "Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced." A lean manufacturing company vigorously attacks waste in all its forms, which in turn, ...
When I was writing the chapter on what manufacturers can do to save themselves in 2008 for my book, Can American Manufacturing be Saved? Why we should and how we can, one of my top recommendations was ...