If you haven’t started applying lean construction techniques to your sheet metal shop, it’s not too late to start and get ahead of your competition. A few years ago, many ductwork fabrication shop ...

Lean manufacturing techniques reduce product cycle time. Lower cycle time is used to determine the success of lean techniques such as cellular flow manufacturing.

UK industry needs to emulate its US counterparts and adopt 'lean manufacturing' techniques. The sector's willingness to help itself is now more important than calling for government intervention.

There are a number of articles and books written on lean manufacturing techniques and lean construction, including many in the pages of Snips about applying lean in sheet metal shops. This article ...

The three fundamental principles of lean manufacturing -- reducing waste, increasing value and continuous improvement -- relate very directly to training as well.

When companies opt to implement lean manufacturing techniques correctly they achieve necessary cost improvements and optimize productivity all while maintaining operational control that only on-shore, ...

A hospital stroke team used auto industry “lean” manufacturing principles to accelerate treatment times, according to new research.

Lean principles promote reduced waste and increased productivity, so training staff in the techniques of lean manufacturing usually pays dividends with implementation of the principles.

To accomplish these dual goals, many hospitals employ Lean manufacturing techniques, which involve examining processes end to end, and identifying and eliminating waste.

No survey of modern automotive manufacturing can possibly overlook the “lean” techniques and cultural values developed in Toyota’s Production System, so it was inevitable that The Magical ...