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- To Find New Employees, Look to the Current Ones
- For a leading lean manufacturer in the Northeast, offering incentives to current employees has proven to be the most effective route to finding quality new hires.
Article Published: 6/2/2010
- Has Lean Become Too Extreme?
- Surges in demand reveal a weakness of just-in-time supply chains.
Article Published: 5/19/2010
- Outsource Regionally Instead of Nationally
- The logic of “offshoring” often makes more sense when there is no shore involved. Considerable savings can result from sending work to different regions of the USA.
Article Published: 5/18/2010
- The Skinny on Lean Manufacturing
- Lean manufacturing—the on-going effort to remove waste from a manufacturing process—has become not only a practice in the metalworking industry, but a culture as well.
Article Published: 3/19/2010
- Machining Reimagined As A Lean Resource
- It was a bold move for this company to install four new machine tools, including two turn-mills, at one time, but it was the only way to take the lean journey to a higher level.
Article Published: 12/21/2009
- The Responsiveness Robot
- For this lean shop dedicated to low-inventory kanban relationships with customers, the most critical measure of efficiency revealed the value of robotic loading.
Article Published: 11/10/2009
- What Lean Looks Like
- A lean manufacturing consultant lists ways that lean shops look and operate differently.
Article Published: 7/22/2009
- The Most Valuable Resource For Succeeding At Lean
- What is the most valuable resource? The answer is probably obvious: the people. This shop started to succeed at lean manufacturing once every employee got involved.
Article Published: 7/10/2009
- Moving Forward In Order To Stay Put
- This job shop’s commitment to lean allows its business to grow while it remains in the facility where it has to stay.
Article Published: 7/10/2009
- If You Want to Improve Something, Measure It
- This shop involves all of its employees in the daily exercise of analyzing just where time is being spent.
Article Published: 7/2/2009
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