http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:27:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last year Efficiency Works have been training Stoddart Manufacturing in competitive manufacturing and lean thinking.  In an article on Industry Search Bill Stoddart the Managing Director talks about how this has been good for his company and warns against the temptation to drastically cut spending on skills and ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/uncategorized/2008/12/tough-times-time-to-get-more-competitive/ How does TPM relate to Lean Manufacturing? Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is really about applying Lean Manufacturing to the way we care for our equipment. TPM is an important part of our Lean Manufacturing initiative, because without it we will experience difficulty as we improve the flow of ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/uncategorized/2008/11/how-does-tpm-relate-to-lean-manufacturing/ Recently Efficiency Works exhibited at the 2008 Queensland Manufacturing Technology Exhibition (QMan) held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from October 21-23.  During the exhibition we met many new people interested in Lean Manufacturing and refreshed some existing acquaintances.  During the exhibition many visitors listened to a range ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/uncategorized/2008/11/lean-manufacturing-at-qman/ The Lean manufacturing model has been used by the car manufacturer, Toyota, for more than 50 years as a way to streamline the overall business and increase the efficiency of the operation as well as the quality of the product or service it provides. Since the 80’s and 90’s, lean ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/lean-manufacturing-model/2008/10/developing-the-lean-manufacturing-model/ Lean manufacturing and the lean manufacturing process is a concept that was first used by the car manufacturing company Toyota. In fact, the process has been a part of Toyota’s organization for the last 50 years. The lean manufacturing concept essentially involves streamlining the entire process of the production of ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/lean-manufacturing-process/2008/10/the-lean-manufacturing-process/ http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/uncategorized/2008/10/lean-manufacturing-made-easy/ There are many benefits of lean manufacturing. While lean manufacturing started out as a concept in the car manufacturing industry, it has grown and progressed a lot over time. Now essentially any manufacturing process can incorporate the lean manufacturing concept into their business. It makes no difference if your company ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/benefits-of-lean-manufacturing/2008/10/benefits-of-lean-manufacturing/ So what is lean manufacturing? Lean manufacturing, also referred to as “lean thinking”, is a term coined sometime in the late 80’s/earlier 90’s. The term stems from a book entitled, The Machine That Changed the World. The books was written based on research done by MIT who were looking at ... http://leanmanufacturingmadeeasy.com/lean-manufacturing/2008/09/what-is-lean-manufacturing/