Note: The previous column laid out the premise that for it to remain relevant, the practice of Lean must conceptually broaden its current Cost-of-Goods-Sold focus to include all wastes associated with ...

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 ...

When lean is introduced into a safety project, most people want to end the conversation. Safety, they think, is totally different from lean. Most people still associate lean methodologies with ...