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 ...

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Applying "lean" principles to reduce energy consumption and waste, manufacturers can see significant cost savings. The process has already helped McCain Foods Ltd., a global frozen foods company with ...

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 ...

In today's business world, lean and agile concepts are essential for creating value for customers and improving processes. Lean and agile are two approaches to process improvement that have been ...

The application of ‘lean thinking’ manufacturing and management strategies can help reduce waste and build more efficient supply chains, according to new research. Lean thinking is a management ...

This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...

We continue in our series on Lean Construction and the seven major “wastes” found in our effort to construct quality that is safe, productive and profitable. Let’s examine the waste that can come from ...

At the recent Sustainability in Packaging US conference in Chicago, the urgency around improving recycling recovery rates and incorporating more recycled content into packaging was on full display.