Lean Articles

Employee Empowerment In the current era, “Employee empowerment” has turn into the new hot topic in organizational culture. Although it has been embraced by big multinational businesses, there are still lots of organizations that are new at it especially in the developing countries. Employee empowerment consists of many key [...]

Cross training simply means improving the employees with training them to do the different part of the organisation’s work. To further explain, we can say training an employee A to do the work of employee B and training the employee B to do the work of employee A. There [...]

What is ABC Analysis When we talk about ABC analysis steps in light of Inventory optimization in supply chain, it means a method of inventory categorization in which items are divided into three classes A, B and C. A indicates the most important items and C indicates the least [...]

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a way of keeping and improving the reliability of manufacturing and quality systems by means of procedures, equipment, machines, and human resources that increase the value of business in an organization.  Basically this system emphasizes on maintaining the entire equipment’s in their best working [...]

You ever feel like there is something wrong, but you can’t put your finger on it? Well, before you can fix the problem, you need to recognize it first. The longer you stay in that one place, the more you’ll struggle in seeing the problem, which we call “waste.” [...]

The term “visual factory techniques” is a concept of lean manufacturing processes founded on visual information all over the working place of a business entity. It employs a coordination of communication tools for information sharing at the time and place it is considered necessary. Through visual controls it is [...]