Lean Manufacturing Blog

In a business setting that operates under lean manufacturing principles, it is important that the staff and employees of the company must have lean manufacturing training. Lean manufacturing is a management principle that almost every business wants to emulate. Lean manufacturing is all about reducing waste to make the business more effective and efficient. Lean manufacturing training begins with the classroom setting with managers, consultant, implementers and employees are gathered to learn the concepts, formulate programs … Read entire article »

Lean manufacturing and processing has been an important strategy and basic technique in helping companies improve their profitability and competitiveness. The fundamental function of lean manufacturing and processing is to reduce wastes and unnecessary work practices and behaviors among workers of a particular manufacturing company. Because the times have really gone hard, demanding and intense due to political and turbulent concerns affecting all nations, firms are currently facing challenges to be able to keep their profitability and … Read entire article »

Before we move on, let us first answer the issue raised by this article by identifying what the top seven wastes companies identified as the reasons for the production delays, gargantuan costs and, eventually, bankruptcy filings and hostile takeovers are. 1) overproduction 2) transportation 3) motion (processes that don’t need to be conducted) 4) inventory 5) processing 6) waiting time 7) scrap and defects Understanding what lean manufacturing is does not take rocket science to bear down to the basic concepts. Simply put, … Read entire article »