Lean speakers, Lean tool users and Lean Thinkers
Chris Hohmann
JULY 31, 2022
Since awareness about Lean has spread, it seems that Lean experts are plentiful.
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The digital transformation and lean-digital approaches
Design World
JANUARY 8, 2023
The top goal of most digital transformation (DX) initiatives sounds suspiciously similar to that of lean-manufacturing methodologies — to minimize an operation’s waste and cost while concurrently maximizing its quality (defect-free) throughput of customer-coveted product.
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The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement
Chris Hohmann
MARCH 27, 2023
The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement by John Bicheno and Matthias Holweg is out. pounds), gaining a little muscle … Continue reading The Lean Toolbox Sixth Edition: A Sourcebook for Process Improvement
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Is Lean Always Futile If Customers Come Last?
Chris Hohmann
JUNE 5, 2022
This post was inspired by an article published June 1, 2022 by Rick Bohan and Ron Jacques on [link] , titled “Lean Is Futile If Customers Come Last”.
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Top Principles of Lean Manufacturing Every Professional Should Master
Snic Solutions
MAY 25, 2025
Lean manufacturing is designed to enhance efficiency, minimize waste, and significantly improve product quality. Looking to elevate your manufacturing processes? Master these core principles to streamline your operations and achieve sustained success.
Bottleneck Analysis in Lean Manufacturing
ATS
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Share Lean manufacturing focuses on eliminating waste and optimizing processes to achieve maximum efficiency and expediency. This means bottlenecks are in many ways the natural adversaries of lean principles. This is why conducting a bottleneck analysis in lean manufacturing operations is such a critical step for manufacturers to take.
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Scaling OEE to Digitize Lean Manufacturing
Automation World
MAY 30, 2024
Bayer Crop Science shares how it uses Siemens’ Opcenter Intelligence and Insights Hub software to digitally transform its operations around an OEE center point
Industry Reimagined 2030 Releases Research on The State of Lean Manufacturing
Gary Mintchell
APRIL 18, 2023
Making Lean Manufacturing more widespread is a good start. Industry Reimagined 2030 just released its research report “ The State of Lean Manufacturing.” Lean Manufacturing continuously eliminates waste, bottlenecks and improves customer value through employee engagement and utilizing data-driven tools. Yet only 10-15% of U.S.
Implementing Lean Manufacturing Principles In CNC Machining
Manufacturing Tomorrow
MARCH 24, 2025
One proven approach to achieving these objectives is the implementation of Lean Manufacturing Principles. Lean manufacturing, a system that emphasizes value creation while minimizing waste, has gained widespread recognition for its ability to streamline operations and reduce costs.
The philosophy and tools of lean manufacturing
The Fabricator
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
Do you focus on lean tools but ignore the philosophy? Or do you opine about lean philosophy but ignore the tools? Doing either can kill an improvement initiative.
Digital Lean — The Next Frontier in Smart Manufacturing
Plastics Today
APRIL 22, 2025
Digital lean, combining lean principles with digital insights, will be explored during a workshop at MD&M East.
How serious is your manufacturing company about starting a lean journey?
The Fabricator
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Are you serious about lean manufacturing, or are you just dabbling? Considering the state of the world, now would be a good time to get serious.
Never forget the building blocks of lean manufacturing
The Fabricator
DECEMBER 29, 2022
After seven years of writing for The FABRICATOR, columnist Jeff Sipes writes his send-off by addressing the past, future, and the fundamentals at lean manufacturing’s core.
The 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing
MRPEasy
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The lean manufacturing methodology chiefly revolves around minimizing production times and raising efficiency by eliminating waste. In this post, we go through the 8 principal wastes in lean manufacturing and see how manufacturing software can help to address them. What is waste in lean manufacturing?
Is your metal fabrication shop's lean manufacturing journey sustainable?
The Fabricator
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Is your metal fabrication shop sustaining your lean manufacturing journey, or are you letting things backslide? It’s time for reflection.
Siemens Leans into SaaS, the Metaverse and SMBs
Automation World
JUNE 20, 2023
The new direction announced last year by Siemens Digital Industries Software is already paying off for the company through record growth driven by growing adoption of its SaaS products and its integrated electromechanical and operations technologies.
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Driving Success in Manufacturing Projects: Mastering Project Management and Lean Principles
Granta Automation
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Often the challenges associated with this are multifaceted: managing tight budgets, adhering to stringent timelines, and delivering value to stakeholders … Continue reading → The post Driving Success in Manufacturing Projects: Mastering Project Management and Lean Principles first appeared on Granta Automation.
How shops can relaunch and sustain a lean manufacturing program
The Fabricator
AUGUST 29, 2022
Has your metal fabrication shop's lean manufacturing journey stalled or faltered? If so, it’s time for a relaunch.
Why CMMS Remains Critical to Manufacturing Maintenance
Automation World
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Strategic data use, safety and integration capabilities are the key factors behind the successful use of computerized maintenance management systems to automate the processes that drive lean, proactive maintenance strategies and increased efficiency.
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How to win over lean manufacturer doubters in metal fabrication
The Fabricator
AUGUST 1, 2022
Those that resist lean manufacturing efforts need to see the negative impact nonvalue-added activities can have on metal fabrication shops and other facilities.
Using Fishbone Diagrams in Manufacturing
ATS
JANUARY 8, 2025
Its an essential tool for continuous improvement in Lean and Six Sigma environments and is equally valuable wherever theres a need for root cause analysis. It explores how to create a fishbone diagram and how the fishbone fits within Lean manufacturing. This blog provides a guide to using the fishbone diagram in manufacturing.
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Where exactly is Gemba?
Chris Hohmann
JULY 18, 2022
Going to see buy oneself, at the Gemba, is a Lean commandement well received (understood?) by all those who went through a Lean initiation. Now laymen and beginners may ask: where exactly is Gemba? First let’s clarify the meaning of the word Gemba.
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What is Lean Manufacturing and its Six Core Principles?
Factory Worx
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The post What is Lean Manufacturing and its Six Core Principles? appeared first on Factoryworx.
Industry 4.0 and Lean Management – How to Manage the Chaos
Seeburger
JULY 19, 2022
Lean management methods provide valuable approaches for companies to design their systems more efficiently and sustainably. Value chains are becoming increasingly complex and networked. This is not only due to globalisation, but also to the increasing use of industry 4.0
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Is Six Sigma out of fashion?
Chris Hohmann
JUNE 24, 2022
This post is inspired by an article posted June 15th, 2022 on [link] titled “Latest Study from Avery Point Group Concludes: Demand for Lean Professionals Remains Strong, While Six Sigma Talent Demand Continues to Decline”.
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Lean, green lifting machines
Manufacturer's Monthly
APRIL 29, 2024
The post Lean, green lifting machines appeared first on Manufacturers' Monthly. “And we just keep on developing.” Combilift will fully supply lithium-ion trucks to customers upon request, recognising the industry’s anticipated growth to accommodate lithium recycling.
$800,000 NSW pilot program aimed at regional manufacturers
Manufacturer's Monthly
MARCH 19, 2025
The Lean Manufacturing Pilot Program will provide small-to-medium-sized manufacturers across regional NSW with funding to undertake audits by professional consultants that will identify ways to re-organise their manufacturing operations.
Libiao robotic solution ‘optimizes high-end third-party logistics company’
Robotics Automation News
MAY 15, 2025
A compact and agile AirRob automated storage system by Libiao Robotics has been installed in the Shanghai warehouse of a specialist lean supply chain management service company.
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New manufacturing program for Central Coast businesses
Manufacturer's Monthly
MARCH 25, 2025
The Lean Manufacturing Pilot Program will provide small-to-medium-sized manufacturers across regional NSW with funding to undertake audits by professional consultants. The Lean Manufacturing Pilot Program will help support local manufacturers to improve their operations and continue to go from strength to strength.
How Can Technology Advance Our Lean Effort??
Industry Week
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Digital works best when it’s pulled in to add value for specific process improvements.
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Top 15 Lean Manufacturing Tools in 2025
MRPEasy
JANUARY 13, 2025
Lean manufacturing tools help you organize workspaces and fix problems before they can slow you down. What is lean manufacturing? Lean manufacturing is all about working smarter, not harder. At its core, its […] The post Top 15 Lean Manufacturing Tools in 2025 appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors.
Taking a lean approach in the welding department
The Fabricator
JUNE 7, 2024
Experts reveal that starting a continuous improvement campaign in the welding department isn't as hard as a metal fabrication shop might think. Jason Becker from Underground Metal Works and Brian Engelhardt from MERRILL Technologies (No. 13 on the 2024 FAB 40), weigh in.
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Lean Into It
eFlex Systems
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
See how lean principles and modern tools tackle defects, overproduction, and more. Explore practical solutions for real-world manufacturing challenges.
Lean principles help to streamline assembly operations
The Fabricator
OCTOBER 6, 2023
The same continuous improvement tools that help metal fabricating operations to hum can help with the assembly department as well.
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New Universal Cartridge Design and Modular Rack System, with New Website Feature
Fabricating & Metal Work
MARCH 31, 2025
LEAN Manufacturing Products is thrilled to announce the launch of our Universal Cartridge Design and Modular Rack System, engineered to optimize your lean manufacturing operations. Transform your lean manufacturing processes today with our innovative Configurator.
Lean Into It (Part 3)
eFlex Systems
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Explore practical ways modern manufacturing tech reduces transportation and inventory waste, driving efficiency and profitability in lean operations.
Lean Into It (Part 2)
eFlex Systems
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Discover how modern manufacturing tech tackles Lean wastes like Waiting & Underused Talent in this blog, boosting efficiency, training, and ROI.
LeGrand Metal Works leans into plasma cutting prowess
The Fabricator
JANUARY 23, 2025
Jake LeGrand discusses his passion for plasma cutting, his one-man shop in Missouri, and turning an empty water tank into a campground fire pit.
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Should a fabricator adopt or adapt lean?
The Fabricator
MARCH 17, 2025
The only way that lean manufacturing techniques can work for job shops is if they adapt the concept to meet their own manufacturing realities.
Lean Workshop kickstarts Technoset’s £650,000 factory improvement drive
Manufacturing Tomorrow
JANUARY 6, 2025
Technoset Ltd, which employs 27 people at its factory in Rugby, took learnings from a Warwickshire Manufacturing Growth Programme lean workshop to create a more streamlined process flow and a world class production and inspection cell.
Modular motors and gearboxes make product development simple
Robotics Business Review
DECEMBER 23, 2024
This is exacerbated by the fact that manufacturers carry less and less inventory in an effort to keep costs lean. To beat the competition, engineers must shrink development times, optimize product performance and traverse an ever-growing number of supply chain issues.
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Test Automation and CI/CD DevOps in the Automotive Industry
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 16, 2023
To some extent, the automotive sector has already adopted lean principles. The DevOps pipeline holds remarkable similarities to how the automobile sector works. Workers neatly assemble different parts to construct an entire vehicle. The automotive industry has […].
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Learning to see waste and become a more focused sheet metal shop
The Fabricator
JANUARY 24, 2023
Longtime industry consultant Gary Conner recalls his days implementing lean manufacturing concepts and eliminating waste in the sheet metal job shop.
Is Value Stream Mapping a skill worth mentioning?
Chris Hohmann
JULY 26, 2023
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is popular and hype to a point it makes it a kind of Lean emblem. An academic mocked a company’s low Lean maturity for not displaying any Value Stream Map. It was not only shocking to my ears, but proved the academic’s own low maturity on the subject.
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