10 Key Lean Mindsets for Factories, Hospitals, Startups, and More

Article written by Mark Graban It’s been more than 25 years since the term “Lean Production” was coined, although the Toyota Production System is much older than that. Hospitals and health systems have been using Lean as an improvement methodology and management system for more than ten years. It’s also been about five years since the “Lean Startup” methodology was

5 Sweeping Trends to change paradigms forever

Manufacturing technology is not what tit used to be a decade ago. Today’s increasingly automated and software driven industries have reduced human intervention to pressing only a few buttons in some cases. The application of advanced technologies in manufacturing such as nanotechnology, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) are changing the face of manufacturing in ways unimaginable a few decades

10 good reasons companies do not use Lean Six Sigma

I am pretty sure you have read so many articles all over the web or talk to many people about the huge important of Lean Six Sigma. Every time I come across something new, if it is a new task or news I try to see the other side of the coins. That is why I decided to put together