Lean manufacturing centers around minimizing waste and reducing costs through automation and continuous improvements in operational efficiency. Lean manufacturing relies on integrated technological ...

MUNICH—BMW plants in Landshut and Wackersdorf, Germany, creates instrument panels just-in-time to minimize overproduction, ...

Question: What offers the greatest opportunity to drive down the cost of a product or service and increase the value of the company? Answer: It's the application of lean principles across the entirety ...

Lean production is the name given to a group of highly efficient manufacturing techniques developed (mainly by large Japanese companies) in the 1980s and early 1990s. Lean production was seen as the ...

he Toyota Production System, which was developed from the late 1940s through the mid-1970s by top Toyota executives to improve the company’s manufacturing processes, is now used by numerous companies ...

I did a webinar for IndustryWeek late in 2012 titled “How To Implement Lean Manufacturing -- And Virtually Guarantee Failure.” Many who watched my webinar were surprised when I stated that the most ...

Lean manufacturing is an inventory-management and manufacturing strategy that companies implement to reduce costs, increase productivity and gain a competitive advantage. The techniques lean ...

The implementation of projects for the development of the production system using the principles of lean manufacturing allowed the enterprises of the United Engine Corporation to save 539 million ...

China’s space industry is now applying a similar method to rocket and satellite manufacturing. “From final assembly to ...

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2005--About one year after implementing a lean manufacturing system, premium men's footwear maker Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation is reporting ...