TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California Manufacturing Technology Consulting® (CMTC) recently delivered Lean Training to RKL Technologies, Inc. (“RKL”) employees to help organize RKL’s shop floor ...

Relentlessly improve through lean is the operational strategy at Watlow. Here, employees review performance at the gemba. A skilled welder isn’t born fully fledged. Neither is a superior athlete or an ...

You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

According to kaizen philosophy, the improvement of systems, programs and people is a continuous, ongoing process. The kaizen method originated as a Japanese business approach and the word translates ...

In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...

Two dominant trends in the industry, lean manufacturing and green manufacturing, are converging. While lean initiatives do not automatically translate to minimum environmental impact, the two notions ...