During the mid-20th century, Toyota® was just beginning to enter the automobile market. During that time Ford® ruled the market with its assembly line process. Fast forward 60 years – today Toyota is the most profitable automobile manufacturer, with 4 times earnings per car compared to any of the big […]

It is one of the many 800-lb gorillas that always finds a way to be in the way. Accounting for it has become the norm in scheduling any type of work, be that punching up a spreadsheet, pushing a broom or turning a wrench. It is the wasteful product of […]

Northern Ireland’s second-largest city, Derry, is hosting this year’s Manufacturing Excellence Roundtable event on the 15th and 16th of March at the City Hotel. The event is a gathering of European manufacturing companies, and is set to host large global businesses such as Danone, Beam, Diageo, Weetabix, Heinz, and Akzo […]

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Leading Six Sigma training provider 6Sigma.us continues their busy 2016 training schedule with a program in Raleigh, North Carolina beginning February 16, 2016. Peter Peterka, Founder and CEO of Global Six Sigma LP, said, “We offer these dynamic and challenging training and certifications […]

SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI (PRWEB) JANUARY 22, 2016 Lean Business Intelligence (BI) was developed and launched in The eFactory by Marty Preuss. Marty combines his extensive operations background and process improvement experience with modern business intelligence tools to help manufacturers reach full potential results. With past certifications from APICS, ASQ and a […]

Press release submitted by Quad Cities Chamber (Quad Cities) – Quad Cities area manufacturers will learn best practices in implementing lean manufacturing principals during a workshop called Go Lean to Compete on Wednesday, January 20 being held from 10:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the John Deere Davenport Works facility, […]

While non-high-tech manufacturing production is expected to increase in 2016, there are many challenges facing the manufacturing industry. To stay competitive, manufacturers are investing in logistics efficiency such as maximizing factory floor space and time. Apex International wants to face these challenges head on. Growing at a rate of 30 […]

Tamkeen announced the launch of the KAIZEN quality consultancy programme, which will provide businesses with a number of opportunities to adopt the Japanese KAIZEN business framework to improve labour productivity and management. This programme will be implemented in cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The first element of […]

Lean Manufacturing is a requirement for American manufacturing, and the Leonardo Group has been training Lean leaders for almost two decades. Whenever possible, training should take place in an environment where students can see Lean in action, and relate what they are learning to the activities they see in practice. […]

Many business owners may have heard of and implemented lean production principles — a method for eliminating waste — or Six Sigma, a data-driven approach to eliminating defects, but practitioners haven’t combined Six Sigma with lean until recently. Companies such as GE, Coca-Cola and IBM — even the U.S. military […]