Relentlessly improve through lean is the operational strategy at Watlow. Here, employees review performance at the gemba. A skilled welder isn’t born fully fledged. Neither is a superior athlete or an ...

You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

Michigan Tech’s Lean transformation uses an embedded Lean practitioner model that has our frontline supervisors and employees solving problems and making improvements. In this model, the Office of ...

FORT MCCOY, Wis. - Fort McCoy's long-standing Annual Training Conference, formerly known as the "Pre-Camp Conference," has been eliminated. This is the result of one of Fort McCoy's Lean Six Sigma ...

As we have previously covered on this blog, the primary purpose of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology is to eliminate waste and reduce variation in manufacturing, service and design processes, thus ...

CINCINNATI—ISO certification has its benefits, but other business approaches might be more useful, according to Charlie Neff, president of Friction Coating Corp. in Clinton Township, Mich. If ...