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What Is 5S Podcast

Here is the audio of the video I just put out. This will enable you to download it and listen to it at your convenience. NOTE: I took down the podcast as the audio is horrible. Not sure what happened, but I will need to redo it. Sorry for the inconvenience. … Read entire article »

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Lean Manufacturing Engineer

The Lean Manufacturing Engineer Lean manufacturing has truly become a widely accepted and used discipline or approach to making the business efficient, profitable and competitive. Companies around the world have indeed started to recognize the importance of adopting the basic and fundamental techniques and strategies of lean manufacturing. That is because operational costs are constantly and rapidly rising nowadays, and the capital requirements for operations and energies are specifically soaring. The case comes hand in hand with the unnecessary … Read entire article »

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Lean Manufacturing Consultant

What Is A Lean Manufacturing Consultant? The world of manufacturing has always been driven to be effective and efficient at the same time, this is where the lean manufacturing consultant comes in. This type of consultant is very proficient in using various techniques and tools that can really and most often and not significantly improve the manufacturing business. Every business wants to be streamlined. Applying lean principles will depends on the lean manufacturing consultant. There are other factors … Read entire article »

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A Simple Checklist to Obtain a Lean Manufacturing Certification

Life around the world, even in the first world and fully developed countries has really gone very hard. There are lots of concerns and issues that hound firms around the world. Unfortunately, these issues make companies’ profitability and competitiveness at risk and declining. Thus, experts, managers and human resources organizations have verged to come out with principles and strategies that are aimed at helping firms improve their earnings and keep operations. Most firms now are starting to look … Read entire article »

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Lean Manufacturing Books

A Handful of Recommended Books About Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is the emerging trend nowadays for maximization of productivity among companies and firms. Because today’s time is so hard, with almost every company around the world suffering from narrowing margins and operation losses, major and established giant firms acknowledge and start implementing lean manufacturing strategies within their businesses. However, lean manufacturing is a discipline, an approach that should be carefully studied before implemented in the workplace. Taking a … Read entire article »

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Lean Manufacturing 3rd Party Logistics

Implementing Lean Manufacturing by Third Party Logistics Outsourcing Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is one of the business philosophies of today that have been embraced by most corporations around the world. Though it was initially intended for the improvement of manufacturing systems and processes, it made its mark throughout the rest of the enterprise as well. Lean manufacturing originated from the business policies of one of Japan’s top automobile maker Toyota. This is very obvious since several of the … Read entire article »

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Does Visual Management Work?

While walking around the production plant, there were a few things that did indeed stick out. I have put in a few visual management indicators to allow us to know when something is not functioning properly. As the Industrial Engineer, I can not always hold people accountable for using or not using these tools. I merely can put them into place. So, back to the topic. While on my plant tour, I noticed one area right … Read entire article »

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What Lean Manufacturing Is

The Lean Manufacturing Process Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing process is a general term for a wide variety of manufacturing methodologies that are bent on maximizing the value and minimizing the waste in a manufacturing process. The lean manufacturing process had its origin from the Toyota Production System in Japan. Most of the phrases and terms used in the lean manufacturing process such as kanban, kaizen and andon are Japanese terms that became standards in the lean manufacturing process. The … Read entire article »

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The Advantages Of JIT (Just In Time)

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Lean Manufacturing Facilities Planning

Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Facilities Lean manufacturing is a set of strategies and business approaches that help firms attain the desired level of profitability and competitiveness. Lean manufacturing are applied in manufacturing facilities that aim to maximize their earnings capabilities by boosting production, maximizing labor resources and reducing expenses and costs. The key to the success of lean manufacturing is effective implementation and religious adherence to the principles contained in the set of the strategies. Lean manufacturing principally … Read entire article »

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