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…
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Out of the blue: In search of excellence
Bill Bellows presents his new column, Out of the blue which highlights concepts associated with an integration of ideas from W. Edwards Deming, Russell…
Lessons from Deming: The brief history of quality, part three
This brief history of quality, would not be complete without sharing a passage from Prophets in the dark, by David Kearns, the former CEO of Xerox: In…
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…
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…
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. …
Special event review: Association of Manufacturing Excellence conference Jacksonville 2014
LMJ travels to sunny Florida for the 2014 Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) conference in Jacksonville.The AME conference is one of the…
The treasure is where the rainbow ends
Klaus Lyck Petersen, group process manager at Solar Group presents a history of the organisation’s lean practices and the lessons they’ve learnt along …
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…