Picking up from last month’s discussion of the four principle elements of the Lean Management System, this month’s column will focus on the second element — visual controls. The four elements that ...

The purpose of lean management is to sustain a lean production system. Without a lean management system, lean implementation often falters, sometimes fails, and virtually never delivers up to its long ...

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TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -- There's an old saying: "Quitting smoking is easy; I've done it hundreds of times!" In many ways, that sentiment applies to the sustainment of Lean improvements. Employees ...

he Toyota Production System, which was developed from the late 1940s through the mid-1970s by top Toyota executives to improve the company’s manufacturing processes, is now used by numerous companies ...

So, what is lean management exactly? Put in its most simple form, lean management is about eliminating waste without sacrificing productivity to improve work processes, purposes, stakeholder value, ...

In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...

Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of The Daily Signal. Send an email to Rob. The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced the creation of an Office of Continuous Improvement to ...

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