As Vietnam’s productivity is one of the lowest in Asia, the “Made in Vietnam” lean management model is considered an effective solution to the country’s productivity issues in the Industry 4.0 era. As ...

The purpose of lean management is to sustain a lean production system. Without a lean management system, lean implementation often falters, sometimes fails, and virtually never delivers up to its long ...

I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...

How did the number one ranking academic medical center in patient survival save $46 million in financial benefits last year? Denver Health has committed to 400 rapid-improvement projects and ...

We’ve all heard the success stories of companies that do well implementing Lean principles. We've also heard the overwhelming number of Lean stories of companies that are disappointed with their lean ...

Picking up from last month’s discussion of the four principle elements of the Lean Management System, this month’s column will focus on the second element — visual controls. The four elements that ...

I attended the 2015 Lean Accounting Summit on October 8-9 th in Jacksonville, Fla., produced by Lean Frontiers, headed up by founder and President Jim Huntzinger. It was two days of information-packed ...

he Toyota Production System, which was developed from the late 1940s through the mid-1970s by top Toyota executives to improve the company’s manufacturing processes, is now used by numerous companies ...

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -- There's an old saying: "Quitting smoking is easy; I've done it hundreds of times!" In many ways, that sentiment applies to the sustainment of Lean improvements. Employees ...