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- Ask the Expert: Lean Manufacturing
- Initiate a dialogue with some of the industry's most respected experts. Ask Greg Eckerman a question related to lean manufacturing.
Article Published: 2/7/2012
- Going Lean in Order to Grow
- This shop has a plan for dramatically expanding its contract machining business in high-value markets.
Article Published: 5/13/2011
- From Job Shop Chaos To Lean Order
- Classic lean manufacturing principles are practically taken as gospel, but benefits can be elusive for manufacturers that produce a variety of parts in low volumes. This shop took a different approach to lean—one aided by software that helped identi...
Article Published: 10/19/2010
- 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
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