Posted on January 31, 2008 by learnsigma
Lean manufacturing is the processes, techniques, strategies and initiatives being implemented by companies around the world that aim to reduce unnecessary and unproductive tasks, activities and behaviors in the work environment.
Because the times have really gone hard, demanding and intense due to political and turbulent concerns affecting all nations, firms are currently facing challenges to [...]
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Posted on December 19, 2007 by learnsigma
Lean Manufacturing and Consulting Firms in the UK
Lean manufacturing has become part of the modern corporate industries’ existence. There are dozens of crises bugging all sorts and kinds of industries nowadays.
That is why al companies are striving really hard to be utmost productive and profitable. Today, generation of savings and added revenues, along with huge [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by learnsigma
Before we discuss how to implement the much discussed corporate planning strategy known as lean manufacturing, let us first define what it is.
Lean manufacturing is a combination of approaches that, when put together, aims to eliminate the all the common practices that are seen as wholly unnecessary and time-consuming. Such are called wastes, like overproduction, [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2007 by learnsigma
Ergonomics is often referred to as a discipline containing human factors affecting or influencing manufacturing production.
Ergonomics mainly focuses on the human body, its capacity and its limits. Thus, ergonomics is often considered a full-scale scientific discipline that tries to touch and understand interactions between humans and other significant elements of a system, usually the working [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2007 by learnsigma
Today, in a highly consumerist society where people strive to acquire more possessions, it is ironic that in manufacturing consumer products, lean is in.
The concept of zero-waste does not only circulate among ecological zones, it seems. Lean manufacturing is a new buzzword in the industrial world which is rapidly gaining ubiquitous following. Lean manufacturing [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2007 by learnsigma
Empowering and inspiring firms to implement strategies that would seek the maximum value of their goods and services and, at the same time, reduce wasteful elements and activities significantly is the primary goal of lean manufacturing processes.
Since its introduction, most observers say it was pioneered by business tycoon Henry Ford and further developed [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2007 by learnsigma
This might approach you as a big surprise, but the principles of lean manufacturing actually dates a whole lot back, specifically the era of Benjamin Franklin. This does not assume that lean manufacturing principles are ancient, but the time of Benjamin Frankling cannot be called recent can it?
It is stated that in lean manufacturing, [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by learnsigma
To put it simply, lean manufacturing espouses the ‘no waste’ philosophy in managing the workplace and production processes. It does not know any company size. Whether it’s a major corporation or a small group of five housewives with a cookie business, successful lean manufacturing techniques lies in its implementation and the discipline of those participating [...]
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