Recent Posts Tagged With 'lean benifits'

• Why you should not become a lean manufacturer

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 23:20 in lean implementation, lean concepts, lean benifits

  Here on this blog we have discussed lean manufacturing, and why you should go for it. As per the post last week, vast majority of people go for lean to get cost effective systems followed by the pressure for shorter lead time. All of them can be vali...

• Why do you want to be lean?

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 00:10 in lean implementation, lean concepts, lean benifits

  I was reading an interesting white paper titled “Extending the lean enterprise” by Aberdeen group some time back (you can download this for free by visiting this link). Some information on this whitepaper caught my attention, especially regarding...

• Lean Manufacturing in AC vents manufacturing - Part 2

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 05:44 in lean implementation, lean benifits, lean competition

  This is the part 2 of this series. Read Part 1 firstObservations are consolidated, reviewed and following actions are defined using different tools (Cause & Effect Diagram, IS / IS Not, Situation Mapping, differentiating between Value Added &...

• Partnering with your competition – A Lean thought

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 23:02 in lean concepts, lean benifits

  Lean ideas come from various people. Most of the times those people are not known for their lean manufacturing capabilities. I found one such idea from an online video when some manufacturers demonstrated their processes. So I thought of sharing that...

• Implementing Lean manufacturing in our Organization – Part 3

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 00:42 in lean implementation, lean concepts, lean tools, lean benifits, lean competition

  This is the Part 3 of this series. If you have not read the Part 1 and Part 2 please read by clicking the linksIf you have anything to say, Please leave a comment by clicking on the "Comments" link at the bottom of the post5) Bottleneck ManagementTo ...

• Lean and green manufacturing

  Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 07:40 in supply chain, tps, lean implementation, lean concepts, lean benifits

  We have discussed the relationship between lean manufacturing and green initiatives earlier in this blog. For the past few weeks there were some news items popping up in my inbox about lean and green initiatives. It is very interesting to see people ...

• Lean manufacturing and automation

  Posted on Sunday March 16th, 2008 at 06:58 in lean concepts, lean benifits

  Lean manufacturing and automation goes hand in hand for most of the manufacturers. Although lean dose not mean automation, automation can be a useful tool in lean processes. Automation will bring higher quality, repeatability, and consistency to the ...

• Lean manufacturing brings results to “Symmons Industries”

  Posted on Thursday November 8th, 2007 at 09:38 in lean implementation, lean benifits

  It is amazing to see how fast lean manufacturing is revolutionizing the world of manufacturing. I have described lean as common scenes manufacturing in many of my earlier posts on this blog. Today I read a news article which proved these. This story ...