While the Lego Lean Game is a great training aid, it isn’t the only one at your disposal. If you’re stuck trying to get your team members to embrace rapid change, change games might be in order.

Elgin Community College (ECC) in Illinois has begun construction on its new two-story, 150,000-square-foot Manufacturing and ...

Leadership is an essential building block for the successful implementation of Lean Thinking. This course describes leadership behaviors critical to the successful implementation of Lean in any ...

Key Points A SOS allows you to define the specific steps of a process. It allows your employees to stay on track, keeping ...

This short course consists of two days of lecture-based coverage of topics in Lean and Six Sigma, from fundamental concepts to practical skills and case studies. The training course consists of ...

Lean has two distinct strains: “lean production” (also known as “lean manufacturing”), a structured method ... to help us discover what services they really needed was a game-changer,” Segura says.

Inspired by the Toyota Production System (TPS) in the mid-20th century, lean principles were initially applied to manufacturing but have since expanded to other industries, including project ...

The focus of the silo is optimization of the silo, nothing else. In manufacturing, a silo might be a fabrication area that ...

First and foremost, you must come up with a game plan for hiring the ... and many more. Kaizen and lean thinking are two important management principles that should not be monopolized by manufacturing ...

A new five-year plan released by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, or MassBio, Oct. 2, puts efforts expanding and ...

For years, the manufacturing industry was built on being lean. From reducing inventory to ... Technology, too, is changing the game, with the majority of manufacturers moving towards digital ...