When it comes to the shop floor, every organization embracing lean uses Toyota’s rocks and lake metaphor to talk about improvement: You lower the water level (inventory) to reveal the rocks (obstacles ...

The Manufacturing Institute has launched a new Lean Office education programme that provides the know how to reduce costs, eliminate waste and boost efficiency within business processes. “Up to 80 per ...

For manufacturers, the first stage is generally developing manufacturing cells in a specific part of their factory. Some first steps would be to benchmark, attend a conference on lean, find resource ...