A cool thing about manufacturing leadership is that you can lead a wide variety of operations. I was working in consumer products manufactur...

Preventing breakdowns is a much better strategy than reacting to them. Thankfully we have new tools to support predictive maintenance. 

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Powerful Six-Sigma Tools for a Job Shop

I’m not a big fan of force-fitting lean and six-sigma tools into applications that just don’t make ...

It’s important that a 5S kaizen team is efficient at what they do. Let’s face it, when you pull a team of 10-15 employees together for a few...

The lean 5S system contains 5 steps to achieving a more organized, controlled and efficient manufacturing plant. These steps are Sort, Set-i...

The lean 5S system contains 5 steps to achieving a more organized, controlled and efficient manufacturing plant. These steps are Sort, Set-i...