Tag: Manufacturing
Lean for Small Businesses in Rockford IL
Rockford Register Star | Web site of the Rock River ValleyHere's a small case study from Rockford IL:For Leading Edge, a 120-employee shop that...
"The Last Days of a Low-Tech Factory"
U.S. hanger factories lose out to Chinese manufacturers - March 5, 2007: "This isn't a Lean article, just an article that caught my eye...
Cleaning out the Lean Blog Backlog
I'll probably start this as a weekly or monthly feature, publishing the links and articles that I tuck aside as "drafts" but never end...
Lean Success Stories in the Dakotas!
Dakota MEP : Success StoriesThanks to blog reader Justin for sending this my way. In fact, if you ever have Lean stories that would...
Lean Could Have Helped Hershey
New Haven Register - Bitter EndingThanks to Lean Blog reader Tom for sending this my way, sad story that it is.Hershey's candy is moving...
Always Room For Improvement
I had an internal factory tour that reminded me of Mark's recent blog on the Not So Lean Factory Tour. The plant was not...
Not such a "Lean" Plant Tour
Since I've been working exclusively in healthcare for almost two years, I haven't been in too many factories lately. I was excited to...
Expert Interview: Kevin Meyer on Driving Lean Transformation and Onshoring |...
The LeanBlog Podcast is back with episode #20, our guest is Kevin Meyer, the founder of Superfactory Ventures, which can be found at Superfactory.com....
GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers to...
Following up on my post about my recent experience with metrics and processes being distorted (and my less-than-perfect Lean coaching efforts), I was thinking...
A Dynamo Called Danaher
Business Week
I don't think the Danaher story is such a secret to those of us in the Lean world, but Business Week has discovered...
A Lean, Sign-Making Machine
Century Sign Builders is a Lean, green machine - MSNBC.comHere is a nice case study news story about a small sign making company that...
Lean Suits Story on NPR
NPR : Suit Maker Goes 'Lean' to Keep Jobs in U.S.I'll comment more on this later, but this was on NPR this morning. ...