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 ...

As a manufacturer, you need to make what your customers want. The challenge is knowing exactly what they want, when they want it. In general, approaches to supply chain management in manufacturing ...

Because lean manufacturing reduces waste and increases the efficiency of your production line, it has an impact on other parts of the business. Converting to the new system requires adjustments within ...

The Evana solutions are comprised of several semi-automatic workstations that assemble circuit boards and lenses to holders, focus the lenses, place assembly into housings, label units, test and pack ...

In the 1980s, the West prepared for a manufacturing revolution. Japanese innovations of smoothly integrated production processes and advances in automation led U.S. and European companies to believe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ian Wright joined CarBuzz as an automotive journalist and photographer in 2018. His career started with specialist publications, covering everything from Harley-Davidson to Ferrari. Before writing for ...

Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur who launched a Tesla convertible into outer space on Feb. 6, is nothing if not audacious. So when he told investment analysts the next day that his Silicon Valley ...

Lean product development principles and practices place customer value at the center of the development process, including front-loading the understanding of the customer in a way that increases ...