Lean
Tips to Lean on for Becoming Lean
Lean manufacturing is the goal every shop strives to achieve. But unlike earning a diploma or completing a marathon, it is not a one-time success story.
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How VIBCO Achieved Lean
VIBCO Vibrators, founded in 1962, manufactures and markets a comprehensive range of industrial and construction vibrators.
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5 Buyer Decisions That Increase Costs
These five factors can unnecessarily add costs or delays to a precision machined part: small order quantities, material selection, special diameter holes, close tolerances, unnecessarily fine surface finish.
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Running Remotely
Everybody talks about unattended machining operations and many have implemented it in varying degrees. Since day one, this Dayton, Ohio shop has never operated any other way.
Read MoreThe Skinny on Lean Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing—the on-going effort to remove waste from a manufacturing process—has become not only a practice in the metalworking industry, but a culture as well.
Read MoreWhy Is This Here?
Two essential principles to help you establish “lean” in your operations.
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A Problem-Solving Approach: One Size Does Not Fit All
Each day, organizations face challenges to become lean within their shops. Often, the focus of these lean activities is not extended to our management practices. Problem-solving methodology is one such management practice where simplicity is sometimes ignored.
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Supporting Lean Manufacturing With Digital Photographic Internal Audits
Visual management has been and will continue to be a key driver in the manufacturing world. Lean principles are predicated on visual activities. 5S — the building block of all lean activities — is based on the motto, "A place for everything and everything in its place." Cellular manufacturing focuses on isolating machinery and tools within an area of the plant in order to increase efficiency. Alarms, flashing lights and other poka-yoke techniques are visual assurances of compliance in work cells.
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