How to get off to a lean start
Lean manufacturing is based around the Japanese principle of eliminating waste or muda within a manufacturing system. This waste can take various f…
Tag: kaizen
Applying LSS for sustainability
Balasaheb Bhau Albhar, is the head of quality and EHS MBB at Umicore Autocat India Pvt. (European MNC) and in this article explores issues of green and…
A kaizen strategy to achieve LSS
Bruce Hagenau, president of fabricators Metcam, discusses how the Georgia, USA firm reaped big rewards with kaizen.In the manufacturing sector, and…
Cut the ninja nonsense
Dr Steve Chicken CEng MIED, manufacturing growth director at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, explores the sensitive subject of why the vocabulary…
Cyber kaizen
Finlay Miller, a lean consultant at the University of St Andrews, presents a light-hearted and personal look at the word of lean in cyberspace. The pit…
Questions of the lean doubters
Lean practitioner Jean Cunningham teaches how to do persevere through the doubts of a kaizen event, even if there’s opposition.As lean experts ther…
Human lean – the key to lean sustainment is an engaging leader
Mark Gregory explains how the secret to lean lies in the employee engagement proposition not in the productivity benefit that a lean tool set provides.…
What makes lean a science
Author, speaker and associate researcher at Telecom ParisTech Michael Ballé shares his collaboration with Jacques Chaize, Patrick Decoster, and Ariane …
Leannovation
Professor Daniel Jones, founding chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy, entrepreneur Jean-Claude Bihr, and author and speaker Michael Ballé collabora…