England, not Japan, is being hailed as the birthplace of Lean Manufacturing and Lean methods and principles. According to John Dennis, Director of Lean Six Sigma Training Ltd, this is the only conclusion that can be drawn from a re-released book on British car manufacturing methods at Morris Motors Ltd […]

If you’re starting a business and haven’t yet heard of the Six Sigma concept, it’s time to take notice. Familiarising yourself with the set of tools and techniques employed by Six Sigma can take you from failure to the position of hot, innovative startup company. By using data, analysis, and […]

Topper Industrial, leader in the material handling equipment industry, has been an advocate of lean manufacturing principles for years. Recently the ergonomic industrial cart leader moved beyond kaizen events and ad hoc lean manufacturing events and created a comprehensive continuous process improvement program, implementing lean manufacturing within the entire company […]

Organizations pursuing lean often rush to deploy visual management boards. They fill the walls with metrics and charts, performance data and improvement project plans. Sadly, as often as not, these visual boards turn into unattractive wallpaper, unused, unloved, and out of date. The reason that they fail to fulfill expectations […]

The Kaizen Institute are the global pioneers and leaders in the Kaizen domain, an approach centred on continual improvements to make organisations, lean, efficient, flexible and profitable. Under the MoU, BED and Kaizen Institute will contribute their respective strengths in order to help organisations achieve continual zero investment improvements through […]

On Thursday, March 24th, MoreSteam.com will support the 2016 Annual Lean & Six Sigma Conference by offering two presentations to an audience of Lean Six Sigma leaders gathered at the event. MoreSteam.com’s President and founder, Bill Hathaway, will lead participants in the exploration of Agile Process Design. Agile Process Design […]

Respected manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler will moderate a conversation about the role that technology is playing in the recent overlap and utilization of both advanced lean manufacturing techniques in conjunction with Six Sigma methodologies. Cutler, the host of a weekly episodic video discussion, Kanbanversation, said these best practice methods […]

Many companies are familiar with lean manufacturing concepts and have successfully used these techniques to improve manufacturing processes. Lean techniques, while most often used in printed circuit fabrication and assembly operations, can also be applied to nonmanufacturing processes. One such process is new part number introduction (NPIP). The main thrust […]

Whilst management of the supply chain is essential to every manufacturing operation, it is how that process is managed that will make a difference to the outcome in the long term, writes David Maddison of Plexus. The application of lean six sigma principles to the production process as we know […]

Empire Precision Plastics, a precision molder of optic and intricate molded components, has hired new engineering and manufacturing managers as part of their ongoing expansion. John Meabon, an RJG Master Molder and Empire’s new Tooling & Engineering Manager, has more than 30 years of experience in plastic mold design and […]