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 is a production system that eliminates waste through all steps in the process to build a product. Companies using lean systems work to reduce costs, inventory and cycle time -- the ...

I did a webinar for IndustryWeek late in 2012 titled “How To Implement Lean Manufacturing -- And Virtually Guarantee Failure.” Many who watched my webinar were surprised when I stated that the most ...

IT a roadblock to progress? Never, you say. How can that be when IT lives and breathes innovation? Who else but IT dared to usher open source, XML, SOA, and cloud computing out of the high-tech labs ...

The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

The last few years have shaken the assumptions of the manufacturing industry. Supply chains and labor sources that had been dependable and robust crumbled before our eyes as the coronavirus spread. It ...

When Linear Technology decided last year to change the way the silicon chipmaker did business and move to a more streamlined manufacturing system, employees at the company’s Camas manufacturing plant ...

Buffalo, N.Y. -- The Carbide/Graphite Group of Niagara Falls, FMC Corp. of Buffalo and Avery Denison of Buffalo have partnered with the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness ...

Henry Ford gets the credit for creating the first moving assembly line and revolutionizing the process of making cars, as well as manufacturing in general. And rightly so, but what Henry Ford also did ...