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Make Gains Stick with the Continuous Improvement Tracker

You ran the kaizen event. You saw the improvement. But two months later… is anything actually different? It’s a challenge every CI leader faces. Gains made during Lean or Six Sigma initiatives often
MachineMetrics / Jun 05, 2025

Closing the Gap Between Scheduling and Execution with the...

Manufacturing schedules look great on paper—until they meet the real world. Every day, jobs run late. Machines sit idle. Priorities shift. And despite everyone’s best efforts, it’s hard to answer one
MachineMetrics / May 28, 2025

Real-Time Job Tracking Delivers Clarity to the Chaos of the...

Even the most capable ERP system can only tell you what was planned. It can’t tell you what’s actually happening on the floor, right now. For most discrete manufacturers, job tracking still relies on
MachineMetrics / May 21, 2025

Tariffs & the Factory: What Plant Leaders Can Do to Fight...

Executive Snapshot Tariff policy has shifted sharply in the past 18 months, squeezing margins for U.S. discrete-manufacturing plants. Metal duties remain in force, a new 25% levy on imported vehicles
MachineMetrics / May 01, 2025
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    How lean manufacturing saved a furniture factory
    Lean Manufacturing / January 24, 2018
    Gaston Caperton bought a troubled furniture factory and transformed it into the successful Gat Creek Furniture. He did so using lean manufacturing techniques, focusing on efficiency. It worked....

    How to Identify and Reduce Waste in Manufacturing
    MachineMetrics / January 18, 2018
    The advent of digital transformation has provided a unique opportunity for manufacturers to embrace new technologies that will allow them to take their lean manufacturing initiatives to the next...

    Lean manufacturing conference
    Lean Manufacturing / November 23, 2017
    At the recent Age of Experience conference, lean manufacturing and smart manufacturing were heavily stressed. “'I think around 60% of companies in China are still moving from 1.0 to 2.0, and there is...

    How AMRs work with lean manufacturing
    Lean Manufacturing / November 20, 2017
    AMRs (autonomous mobile robots) can fall in line with lean manufacturing initiatives, which is exactly what they do in a Honeywell Analytics facility. "Intuitive web programming lets Honeywell easily...

    Big Data, AI, and Lean data analytics in manufacturing
    Lean Manufacturing / November 02, 2017
    Big Data is quickly taking a strong hold in manufacturing. In the future, Larry Fast of Lean Leadership thinks that hold will strengthen. He also thinks AI will take a larger role in manufacturing....
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