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Continuous improvement experts shared how they'd use modern tools to bring manufacturing intelligence to the shop floor, getting the right tools in front of the people doing ...

Kaizen is a Japanese term that means “change for the better” or “continuous improvement.” A blitz is “a fast intensive nonmilitary campaign or attack.” In the context of Lean Six Sigma ...

Lean Thinking is not just for manufacturing. Non-manufacturing operations are becoming the larger part of the global economy; so is the hidden waste in them. This course can benefit both service ...

It's a principal of the Japanese philosophy of lean production called "kaizen". Pioneered by Toyota, today it's used throughout the industry. James May:Toyota have tried to kaizen every single ...

I’ve many local examples to prove that a common-sense solution is much better than automation. One case is the Bureau of Immigration. In 2008, the bureau, in its attempt to thwart human traffickers in ...

Vincenzo Buonomo is a senior program manager at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Quality and Applied Statistics. He is responsible for helping companies to understand and apply Lean and ...