Lean Articles

Practitioners of lean are in agreement on the 7 wastes of lean. Companies save lots of resources when improvement projects focused on these 7 wastes of lean are carried out. This in return, helps save money and time. The 7 waste of lean are; Transportation Inventory Motion Waiting Over-production [...]

It’s a misconception that Takt time vs Cycle time are the same things. These are two different things and the difference should be clearly understood in a manufacturing and assembly environment. Cycle time is the time required to finish one unit. To better understand, Takt Time is a calculation [...]

Mass Customization Mass customization is considered to be the happy medium when the buyer wants you to make customized, made on order goods but you want to produce and sell the product at a minimum price to cope up with the mass manufacturing. In some cases, the buyers become [...]

Lean supermarket is the strategy which can be executed as a conjunction between different stages while plotting value stream mapping. Indeed, if one wants to see lean concepts at work than shopping is one of the best places to view that. This is for the reason that a huge [...]

Employee Empowerment In the current era, “Employee empowerment” has turn into the new hot topic in organizational culture. Although it has been embraced by big multinational businesses, there are still lots of organizations that are new at it especially in the developing countries. Employee empowerment consists of many key [...]

Cross training simply means improving the employees with training them to do the different part of the organisation’s work. To further explain, we can say training an employee A to do the work of employee B and training the employee B to do the work of employee A. There [...]