“Lean” process improvement can reduce costs, improve efficiency and make execution more predictable. Lean requires an investment and a culture change. Lean has resulted in improved execution in a ...

When faced with financial pressures, hospital leaders often try to reduce costs by laying off hospital employees. This is, in a way, understandable, since payroll makes up 60 to 70 percent of a ...

LEAN started in the automobile manufacturing industry and has spread to nearly every industry in every country. LEAN is how companies bring continuous improvement to life. It’s much simpler to ...

Historically, making medical devices has been a complicated task, often due to the sheer number of parts produced, all in differing sizes and complexities. When you take into consideration the added ...

IndustryWeek shared a wealth of content in 2021 that explored the topics of lean and continuous improvement. From skewering just-in-time principles to examining the characteristics of a ...

LTS Data Point is a KPI tracking software that links strategic objectives directly to shop-floor execution, supported by built-in Lean tools for root cause anal ...

There are many excellent books and videos on Lean and continuous improvement. They each provide a slightly different perspective and, as such, each adds their own unique value. To distill some of the ...

There are many degrees of change that can result in improvements within an organization. These changes can be grouped into three categories One of Michigan Tech's strategic goals is to "attract, ...

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 15, 2012, Bill Gilbert, vice president of marketing for AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, explained how ...

It is the end of the year, a time when we look back and review what content on IndustryWeek.com caught our audience's attention. And when it comes to topics surrounding lean and continuous improvement ...

Teach people about Lean manufacturing. That is what the U.S. Air Force asked me to do. OK, but before I could teach it, I had ...