We quite often get calls, or find ourselves in a conversation where somebody is inevitably asking, “What’s the leanest way to lay out my factory”? This is always a delicate subject because it is ...

Over the course of the first five entries to this seven-part series, a case has been made for the need of Lean practice to evolve. An industrially proven strategy, metric and process have been ...

If you’ve heard some buzz about Lean tools and principles, you’re not alone. Lean tools got their start in America as early as the 1900s, when Henry Ford used Lean methodology to create the Model T ...

Organizations, both large and small, are going lean. Adopting a lean approach, however, is a huge cultural shift, one that can’t be done overnight. Organizations need to find a starting point that ...

Lean thinking originated with the Toyota Production System. Its success in streamlining existing automotive manufacturing processes led to the adaptation of those principles to other areas of business ...

Menu Lean Leaders I Have a Lean Idea Program Lean Terminology Lean Statistics Special thanks to Memory Jogger's "The LEAN Enterprise for Service" and to Lean.Ohio.gov. A process and method for ...

A research team led by Simon Fraser University has developed Lean Finder, an AI-powered search tool that helps mathematicians and computer scientists quickly locate the right theorems in the Lean ...