You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

It is an unfortunate fact: Many senior leaders and senior staff do not understand the fundamentals of lean. It’s one thing to recite knowledge of lean, and another to live lean every day—both on the ...

The Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology offers a lean certification program—providing training and coaching that teaches participants how to reduce costs ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is offering a new certification program for area businesses, providing training and workplace design assistance in the area of lean manufacturing. The program seeks ...

Lean manufacturing aims to incorporate processes and attitudes to increase efficiency and streamline operations and overhead, resulting in cost savings, increased profits and an engaged, motivated ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCBD) – Trident Technical College has announced plans to offer free lean manufacturing training for 84 participants through the ManuFirstSC Grant program. With the demand for ...

Lean manufacturing, training, new technology and some innovation are helping these woodworking manufacturers increase production while improving quality and efficiency. What follows are some of the ...

Lean manufacturing and green manufacturing are not always considered at the same time as companies plan their factory improvement initiatives. Often, in “going green,” a company will aim for a certain ...

The terms lean manufacturing and "just in time," or JIT, are often used as if they're the same thing, but they aren't identical concepts. Just-in-time manufacturing is focused on efficiency, while ...

The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE), a program of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is administering a 20-month program to deliver lean manufacturing training and ...