Items Tagged with 'lean manufacturing'

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Creating Flow in High-Variety Environments

To fully achieve lean operations, adhesives and sealants manufacturers must take a different approach to continuous improvement.
Kevin Duggan
February 1, 2017
Adhesives and sealants manufacturers face unique challenges compared to other industries when undergoing lean or continuous improvement initiatives, including chemical reactions, vessels, batch sizes, curing times, long setups and required cleaning, regulatory mandates, and very technical processes that must be tightly controlled.
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Strategic Solutions: The Voice of the Customer

Lean manufacturing usually defines “customer” as existing customers who drive your business processes.
James (Jim) E. Swope
September 4, 2013

Most manufacturers are currently or have been involved in some form of lean process. Your company may be well down the path or just starting out, or your customers or suppliers may be going lean. The Lean Enterprise Institute characterizes lean as “creating more value for customers with fewer resources.”


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