At Toyota North America, the Japanese concept of muda — waste in all its forms — drives continuous improvement across 15 ...

Companies adopting a Lean philosophy strive to remove or shorten time spent on activities that the customer doesn’t value. For example, although steps like estimating and makeready are thought of as ...

It’s a question that crops up with amazing regularity: What’s next after lean manufacturing? It’s an odd inquiry, really, because it implies that you “finish” lean or toss it aside in favor of the ...

Manufacturing continues to stand as one of the final frontiers to digital transformation. We are now a decade into Industry 4.0, and all of us can agree that it’s been an exhilarating ten years.

Lean has played a significant role for the past few decades in driving efficiency across manufacturing organizations by providing people with the data and methods for eliminating waste, improving ...

Toyota eliminated 240 hours of monthly waste per site by replacing fragmented digital systems with its “Nexus” architecture built on Inductive Automation's Ignition platform with MQTT communications, ...

When you run a business that makes or sells physical products, more waste means fewer profits—simple as that. Whether it’s excess inventory or redundant processes, manufacturing waste prevents ...

Companies that have utilized lean manufacturing principles know a thing or two about cutting waste. With inauguration day behind us, we’ve already seen some of the first big moves from the new ...