Start your Business – How to build an agile business
Starting a business is an exciting time, full of challenges, learning and opportunity. Many succeed but many fail too, being agile in business is …
Tag: lean
Lean manufacturing during times of peak uncertainty
Lean thinking and stability go hand in hand. At its heart, the pursuit of lean is about creating process stability. The stability of a more efficien…
Top 10: Book Reviews
With the Christmas season upon us, there isn't much time left if you haven't sorted out your wish list. Thankfully The LMJ is here to help with some of…
Transforming into a lean organisation
As an engineering and manufacturing company, we see lean projects on every scale and across every sector. For every company where we see lean manuf…
7 wastes…. what about 7 values?
In this article James Sandfield examines why we are obsessed with cutting waste instead of defining value. He gives his seven values to counteract …
7 wastes – explained
7 Wastes in the processLean is a strategy for your organisation to create value and reduce waste. Any solution which makes both of these improv…
Servitization: What Is It and Why Should You Care
If you’re competing on price alone, your days are probably numbered. (Globalisation commoditisation, shrinking product margins and diminishing returns …
The culture at Toyota
Tony Wallis is Director of Toyota Material Handling in the United Kingdom. In this interview, he touches on some of the key ideas behind the company’s …
Jaguar drives lean initiatives
The first thing you see as you approach JLR’s Castle Bromwich site from Birmingham city centre is a giant billboard with a bright blue Jaguar attached …