Category: Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
Discover the tools and techniques that manufacturers use to create profitability and delight their customers. Learn how the principles of lean manufacturing create value for the customer; among partners in the supply chain; and for any enterprise who would like increased visibility and velocity for their production processes.
Our experts also show how lean manufacturing works within a technologically-enabled, synchronized environment. They explain how supply chain experts are using Lean, the theory of constraints (TOC) and Six Sigma to effect real-world improvements — opening up capacity and enabling manufacturers to react to changes in customer needs.
Lean Manufacturing in Practice
Making Sense of Complex Manufacturing Systems to Get Lean
Lean Manufacturing Leadership Tools
Using Lean to Be More Demand-Driven
The Theory of Constraints
How TOC Can Change Your Lean Worldview
Fast Results Using TOC in Demand-Driven Manufacturing Part 2
Using Lean Tools to Change Manufacturing Processes
What To Use to Become More Demand-Driven
When Manufacturing Improvements Have Too High a Price
Using TOC to Become a Leaner Enterprise
Lean Manufacturing Resources
Understand the metrics that drive lean manufacturing growth. Learn about actual companies who have made the lean manufacturing changes needed to experience growth, profit and control costs. Download now.
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Turn Your Gemba Walk into a Power Walk
Gemba is a term that is increasingly familiar in the manufacturing world. Loosely translated from Japanese, it means “the place where the work is done.” The originators of the Gemba Walk – the practice of walking the shop floor to identify waste – knew that manufacturing process issues could not be identified or solved in…
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What Sandpaper Will You Use? – Part One
What to Use to Get the Most of Your Demand-Driven Changes Demand-driven manufacturing leaders are always refining their tools and tactics to ensure they’re spending their time wisely. This blog marks the first in a three-part series about using the tools of TOC, Six Sigma and Lean to help manufacturing leaders gain the most benefit…
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You are Here!
Where to Start Your Lean Journey There’s one sure-fire way to tell when someone has lived in Minneapolis long enough to be called a Minnesotan. No, it doesn’t involve rooting for the Vikings, though that helps. It’s when they can find their way around The Mall of America without a directory. Built in…
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Efficiency vs. Productivity: Metrics that Matter…Until They Don’t
Measure efficiency and productivity against your REAL goal I keep seeing the word efficiency in the manufacturing media. For someone who is a Constraints Management person, this is the equivalent of saying “Ni” to the Knights Who Say Ni (Monty Python reference, okay?) or like scratching your fingernails across a blackboard. It is one of…
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5 Keys to Manufacturing Transformation
Almost every manufacturer we talk to these days is in the process of implementing (or planning to implement) some sort of change in the way they approach operations: Theory of Constraints (TOC), Lean, Six Sigma, just to name a few. Our focus on demand-driven manufacturing tools and applications has given us a front-row seat to…
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Guest Blog Part 2: Start Your eKanban Implementation with Value-stream Mapping and Engaging Your Suppliers
by Jim Shore Through this guest blog series, my intent is to share some of my experiences implementing supplier quality and Lean manufacturing initiatives by focusing on eKanban systems. My first post offered advice for planning an eKanban rollout (advice that could be applied across any Lean manufacturing project). In this installment, I’d like to…
