Case study: pumping it up
WITNESS simulation platform played an important part in developing the growth plans for mission-critical motors and pumps company, Hayward Tyler. Marti…
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Is lean its own worst enemy?
If you are a regular peruser of LMJ’s news page, or spend some time on news sites, you’ll have noticed a recurring trend: that of opposition to impleme…
Don’t tell them it’s lean and you’ll get away with it
This article describes how the improvement process was implemented and by relating it to lean philosophy and methods attempts to conclude as to why the…
Redesigning healthcare processes from Google
Toyota makes cars. Google makes connections. Toyota takes a set of raw materials and transforms them into a product people buy. Google takes the inform…
Using 5S and visual management techniques to improve productivity
Brian Belpanno is the industrial engineer for the Cohen Children’s Medical Centre in Long Island, New York State and Christopher A. Pinna is a certifie…
Lessons from Deming: Brief history of quality- part 1
“Variation there will always be, between people, in output, in service, in product. What is the variation trying to tell us? -W. Edwards Deming Sever…
Case Study: People and lean
Constellium designs and manufactures value-added aluminium products and components for a broad range of applications, primarily in the aerospace, autom…
Lean in Malaysia
University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus) masters student Edmen Tam has compiled, with the guidance of Dr. Christina Chin, a research project on the s…
Case study: G’s Fresh-lean in the agricultural sector
Sergio Ros Hernandez is the lean and mechanisation director at G’s Fresh, an organisation of agricultural suppliers for produce growers around Europe. …