Lean Manufacturing
Video: A Job Shop’s Lean Transformation
For shops considering a move to lean manufacturing—or a recommitment to lean manufacturing—this video is a great encouragement.
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Lean from the Beginning
How would you design a new plant if you could begin today? Rolls-Royce Crosspointe is a major manufacturing site that was planned from the outset with the expectation that continuous improvement would always be part of its culture.
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What Does Lean Actually Mean?
It's important to make sure your employees are on the same page if you are considering a move to lean. Watch this presentation by BlueSwarf CEO Greg Eckerman for an introduction to lean's core principles.
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Upon Further (A3) Review
Using lean manufacturing’s A3 problem-solving process, Genesis Attachments found that magnetic workholding could provide greater benefits than simply getting parts on and off machines faster.
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For Manufacturers, a Little Inventory is Healthy
It turns out that too much efficiency is inefficient.
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Going Lean in Order to Grow
This shop has a plan for dramatically expanding its contract machining business in high-value markets.
Read MoreWhat is Your Cost Model Costing You?
Some savings are hard to measure precisely, particularly on a per-part basis. That doesn’t mean those savings don’t exist.
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From Job Shop Chaos To Lean Order
Classic lean manufacturing principles are practically taken as gospel, but benefits can be elusive for manufacturers that produce a variety of parts in low volumes. This shop took a different approach to lean—one aided by software that helped identify a more efficient machine layout based patterns in part routings.
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To Find New Employees, Look to the Current Ones
For a leading lean manufacturer in the Northeast, offering incentives to current employees has proven to be the most effective route to finding quality new hires.
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Has Lean Become Too Extreme?
Surges in demand reveal a weakness of just-in-time supply chains.
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