Three key metrics explained—OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), utilization, and TEEP (Total Effective Equipment Performance)

This case study explores how a client in the marine industry effectively boosted their production throughput by adopting lean manufacturing.

Intertwining the Bill of Operations with the BOM offers a comprehensive perspective on production. This fusion leads to enhanced planning, s

This article gives a brief overview of what slot scheduling is and how it can be used in context of lean manufacturing.

This case study describes how executing a project to reduce setup time at our machine shop client resulted in 45% improvement.

This case study examines how our client increased their production capacity by 30% through the implementation of lean manufacturing.

Operational Turnaround reforms the practices and procedures to be more efficient and proactively addresses the underlying issues.

Lean inventory management tools help businesses reduce cost, improve supply chain visibility, shorten lead time and improve cash flow.

Lean Quality Management Systems assure products are being produced in an efficient manner while upholding quality standards.

SMED is a powerful lean system for dramatically reducing the time it takes to complete equipment changeovers.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) minimizes chances of breakdowns, set-up time losses, idle machinery, defects, rework, and safety hazards.

Capacity Analysis allows management to make educated decision about improvement projects, line balancing, and capital investment.

Defining a robust quality system while the production system is being developed results in achieving a higher rate of success.

This article summarizes the fundamentals of lean thinking and how it applies to businesses in manufacturing and service sector alike

In this article we will address a few fundamental questions about lean layout planning.

This article lists the main components of total cost of quality and describes the elements of cost of poor quality and cost of good quality

There are many reasons to consider adding automation to your manufacturing processes. We have worked with customers that needed to...

A discussion on some of the main prerequisites for preparing an organization to go through value stream transformation.

Rapid Plant Assessment (RPA) is a process for rating an operation’s leanness based on a quick plant tour.

Process documentation is critical for having an efficient business operation that mitigates risks and creates consistency.