While some manufacturers are transitioning to lean production systems -- which emphasize lot sizes of one and are driven by demand-based pull signals -- others are still mired in a "mass-production ...

Traditional MRP systems are not built to work that way. [ As a side note, you can see how typical offshoring doesn’t work here, as it is counterproductive to true lean manufacturing.

Lean organizations use a pull method to move materials and products through the production process. A pull system requires the next step in a production process to pull the product through only ...

Lean methodology also has an expansive legacy outside the U.S., with companies such as Toyota making considerable breakthroughs in the application of Lean Tools throughout the 1930s. In addition to ...

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2005--About one year after implementing a lean manufacturing system, premium men's footwear maker Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation is reporting ...

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 ...