"If you’re stuck on where to improve, consider the acronym TIMWOOD, which is used to help remember the seven classic wastes of lean (transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overprocessing, ...

As we have previously covered on this blog, the primary purpose of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology is to eliminate waste and reduce variation in manufacturing, service and design processes, thus ...

It is imperative to predict or at least know the quantified financial benefit of the Lean Journey. Often, firms can show improvement in terms of cycle times and setup times, but the expression and ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

Colin Parris is CTO & SVP of GE Digital, a global leader in digital technology and empowering digital transformation efforts at scale. As you refine your business strategy for 2021, you may be asking ...

In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...

We quite often get calls, or find ourselves in a conversation where somebody is inevitably asking, “What’s the leanest way to lay out my factory”? This is always a delicate subject because it is ...

The distribution industry has always tried to be at the leading edge of technological innovation. However, technology, at best, will keep an industry at par with national averages with respect to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Lean is good. Fat is bad. Right? Maybe not. Ask the polar bear if he doesn’t store fat, how would he survive the winter? This furry ...

The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...