This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...

Dr. Adil Dalal, DBA is CEO, keynote speaker, leadership guru, author of 4 books, and winner of numerous prestigious global awards. Lean technology, also known as the Toyota Production System (TPS), ...

Everyone likes to stay slim and trim throughout, but not everything you want is easy to get! There are no free lunches in life, so to get something working hard for that is important. Individuals can ...

On the face of it, standardization and improvement may be viewed as extreme opposites. We look at the benefits of standardization. Some standardization benefits are specific to lean. Breaking down ...