The construction industry has been employing lean principles primarily in field production through Last Planner and Pull Scheduling. Other lean tools are being used to improve contract relationships ...

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -- Tobyhanna employees earned a Department of the Army award for using Lean Six Sigma tools to save more than $1 million over three years by simplifying the overhaul and ...

Lean and just-in-time (JIT) strategies are still vital to supply chains. Lean management practices JIT strategies may have taken a beating in recent years, but only because companies relied too ...

Between a pandemic, heightened competition, total supply chain uncertainty, and states shutting down and opening — customers, suppliers, and employees are all in unchartered territory. Despite the ...

With Lean Thinking, Jim Womack and Dan Jones ushered a true (and rare) revolution in management thinking: To deliver a superior order of performance, leaders should lead from the workplace, the “gemba ...

The concept of “Lean,” which is essentially a team-based approach to continuous improvement focused on eliminating non-value added activities or “waste” from the viewpoint of the customer, has been ...

Such demands lend themselves well to Lean Six Sigma techniques. Lean basics Lean Six Sigma is a management tool focused on achieving quality by identifying defects in the design of any product or ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

Lean Healthcare Management adapts principles originally developed in manufacturing to the complex, dynamic environment of health services. This approach aims to reduce waste, improve efficiency and ...