CEOs play a pivotal role in steering their companies toward continuous improvement and success. The transformation journey begins with the CEO collecting the voice of the customer and incorporating it ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...

Kaizen is coming to Carson City. Kaizen is a system of continuous improvement embedded in the Lean management efficiency city operations, after training, City Manager Nick Marano wants. Business ...

The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

It was early December in Lynn, Mass., and Katahira-san, GE’s star ambassador of lean manufacturing, was performing a teach-in. The location was a GE defense jet engine plant where the spry ...

A team of key managers from Simonds Farsons Cisk plc recently visited a range of companies in Porto, Portugal to gain first-hand experience of lean manufacturing principles and practices in action.

Lean management, six sigma, Kaizen philosophy applied to business – these terms have become familiar to those of us working within, or supplying, the life sciences sector. From the dramatic changes in ...

Pankaj Goyal, Co-Founder and COO of AutoNxt Automation. Lean manufacturing principles can play a crucial role in the electric vehicle (EV) industry in India. The application of lean manufacturing can ...

On a roll for over 50 years now, Toyota Motor Corp. is the logical first place to look for a glimpse into the future of lean manufacturing. There a new generation is gearing up to spread the tried-and ...

Safety has been getting an unexpected boost at some facilities that, in the past, did not seem so committed to a proactive safety approach. Old school employers are unexpectedly adopting many of the ...