Tag: Manufacturing

Manufacturing Leadership, Lean Systems, and Continuous Improvement

Manufacturing is where many Lean ideas were first developed—but lasting results never come from tools alone. This archive explores manufacturing through the lens of leadership, safety, culture, and systems thinking, drawing lessons from real plants, executives, and frontline experiences that still matter today.

From Toyota and NUMMI to modern aerospace, appliance, and industrial operations, these posts show how manufacturing excellence depends on respect for people, learning from problems, and designing systems that make the right work easier.

Lean Louisville Sluggers

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Louisville Slugger: The sweet spot:As the article points out, Kentucky is quite the hotbed of lean manufacturing, with the influence of the Toyota Georgetown...

Lean for Small Businesses in Rockford IL

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Rockford Register Star | Web site of the Rock River ValleyHere's a small case study from Rockford IL:For Leading Edge, a 120-employee shop that...

"The Last Days of a Low-Tech Factory"

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U.S. hanger factories lose out to Chinese manufacturers - March 5, 2007: "This isn't a Lean article, just an article that caught my eye...

Cleaning out the Lean Blog Backlog

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I'll probably start this as a weekly or monthly feature, publishing the links and articles that I tuck aside as "drafts" but never end...

Lean Success Stories in the Dakotas!

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Dakota MEP : Success StoriesThanks to blog reader Justin for sending this my way. In fact, if you ever have Lean stories that would...

Lean Could Have Helped Hershey

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New Haven Register - Bitter EndingThanks to Lean Blog reader Tom for sending this my way, sad story that it is.Hershey's candy is moving...

Always Room For Improvement

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I had an internal factory tour that reminded me of Mark's recent blog on the Not So Lean Factory Tour. The plant was not...

Not such a "Lean" Plant Tour

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Since I've been working exclusively in healthcare for almost two years, I haven't been in too many factories lately. I was excited to...

Expert Interview: Kevin Meyer on Driving Lean Transformation and Onshoring |...

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The LeanBlog Podcast is back with episode #20, our guest is Kevin Meyer, the founder of Superfactory Ventures, which can be found at Superfactory.com....

How Fear-Based Leadership at GM Led to Faked Production Numbers

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GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers to Keep the Boss Happy) TL;DR: At a GM engine plant, fear-based leadership pushed supervisors...

A Dynamo Called Danaher

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Business Week I don't think the Danaher story is such a secret to those of us in the Lean world, but Business Week has discovered...

A Lean, Sign-Making Machine

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Century Sign Builders is a Lean, green machine - MSNBC.comHere is a nice case study news story about a small sign making company that...
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