Archive for Lean Six Sigma

Go Lean with 5s Lean

There are certain things that can be implemented into any business in order to make it run more smoothly and to improve your capacity to make your customer happy.   I don’t know any business owner that is not interested in improving the organization of their workers, as well as improving the efficiency, safety and quality [...]

Lean Manufacturing Process – An Overview

Lean manufacturing is not necessarily a new process, but it is one that has been implemented by many businesses and continues to be improved upon.   As a matter of fact, improving on lean manufacturing is part of the concept in itself, as you would continually want to be moving forward and improving on whatever is [...]

What Advantage Does Lean Manufacturing Have for Your Business

I don’t know any business owner that is not interested in making sure that their business runs as smoothly as possible.  One of the things that you would want to consider when you’re running a business is moving towards some form of lean manufacturing that can help to reduce your operational costs as well as [...]

Importance of Communication in Lean Manufacturing

When many of us consider making our business lean, one of the focuses of that process is going to be on the assembly and manufacturing of new products.   It is important for you to understand, however, truly implementing lean manufacturing within your business is going to go far beyond the physical part of your operation.   [...]

Muda – Cutting Waste with Lean Manufacturing

It is vitally important for your business to make sure that waste is at a minimum.   This is especially true during a time whenever competition tends to be rather tight as the amount of business that is available is limited because of the economy.   In order to cut our waste or muda as the Japanese [...]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing

It is very important for us to make sure that our business is always firing properly and that we are able to stay in competition, even during a time whenever competition is rather tough.  In order to accomplish this, there are often times whenever changes need to be implemented within a company that will help [...]

Can Lean Manufacturing Work for Your Business?

It seems as if the rules of business are constantly changing but there are certain rules that are always going to be able to be implemented, regardless of the organization or the time in which the changes are made.   A good example of this is lean manufacturing, sometimes referred to as the Toyota Production System.   [...]

Using Lean Manufacturing to Compete in a Tight Market

We certainly do live in difficult economic times and it can be difficult to operate a business during this time, let alone to implement any serious changes in the way that your business operates.  That doesn’t mean, however, that your business needs to suffer during these times as there are some things that can be [...]

Are You Too Small to Go Lean?

There are many businesses that have benefited from the principles of the Toyota production system, often referred to as lean manufacturing.   This type of process helps to streamline an assembly line to the point where it is moving towards single product manufacturing instead of mass producing items all at one time.   In doing so, it [...]

Implementing Kaizen Within Your Business

In an effort to improve the quality of products and the ability to manufacture them as needed, many businesses are going to implement some type of lean manufacturing into the assembly line process.    This is where kaizen plays a role.   Although this certainly can assist you in being able to have a business [...]