How far can you take lean manufacturing practices before you cross the line of what makes sense economically versus doing what a pure lean implementation tells you that you should be doing?
Implementing Lean Manufacturing
An Industry Stuck in the Past
In each of these industries, modern equipment and processes as well as lean manufacturing techniques were employed to ensure the products being produced were of the most high quality and reliability.
Continually Implementing the 5 S System
Sorting though and looking at what you have on a website seems to take a while because not only are you cataloging what is there, you’re making decisions on its importance.
5 S Lean Intranet Cleanup
After sorting through the more than 500 items we ended up with only 75 that we actually needed to keep.
Discovering and Resolving Problems
Most of the projects we build have never been built before; most are completely clean sheet designs, meaning that no one is quite sure what this machine will end up looking like. This means that…