Time-management expert Daniel Markovitz says workers can apply the principles of lean manufacturing to improve their productivity. Here, he explains three lean manufacturing concepts and offers ...

Lean manufacturing concepts eliminate wasteful practices while delivering increased value to the customer. These principles are simple to apply but require full employee participation and relentless ...

Lean and agile manufacturing refer to modern advances in production technology and manufacturing methodology that have led to reduced costs, quicker response time and improved customer service in ...

A manufacturing plant produces more than just goods. It’s also a data factory. Every asset, product, process and system on the plant floor creates and contributes to a staggering volume of data. One ...

In this article Computer Associates' Sumner Blount explains the four main principles of Lean GRC -- highlighting how companies can leverage the concepts of Lean Manufacturing and Lean IT to help ...

A seminar on ‘Lean Manufacturing: Concept and Implementations’ was organized by Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) in association with ICL Business Excellence Group on Tuesday. ‘ ...

The industrial and systems engineering department at Rochester Institute of Technology received the Institute of Industrial Engineers Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Lean Concepts. This is the ...

Now more than ever, your sheet metal shop operations need to be lean in order for you to get the most out of your socially distanced workforce. But when it comes to lean, how do you separate fact from ...

How can lean labour be applied to non-manufacturing sectors? This is already occurring in some forward-thinking companies. Many companies recognise that by removing the concept of materials from a ...

Daniel Markovitz has been a student of lean manufacturing since he first read The Machine that Changed the World as a Stanford Business School student in 1992. Six years ago, when he became a time ...