What Comes First: The Lean or The Culture?

Does culture come before lean or does lean come before culture? It’s kind of a chicken or egg kind of question. Having implemented...

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How to Have Fun in Manufacturing

People don’t usually associate having fun with working in manufacturing. The typical perception of manufacturing is that...

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How to Reduce Machine Changeover Times

SMED projects are so much fun and extremely beneficial in so many ways!

Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) also goes by the names Rapid...

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SMED Internal and External Steps

In continuation of our previous blog about SMED. Here are Steps #3 and #4 that can be used to dramatically reduce changeover times on...

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