Let’s talk about the 5S audit, a mechanism many companies use as their major means to stimulate employee creativity and trigger continuous improvement. 

The seven basic tools of quality are a standard set of graphical methods for improving quality. They can help with understanding variation and determining the root cause of errors in processes.

Lean production is built on the explicit assumption that each step is operated predictably and capably.

Almost half of Americans work in low-wage jobs despite the nation’s low unemployment rate. Aimee Picchi, writing for CBS News, cites a Brookings study that says “44 percent of U.S.

Perhaps for as many as 40,000 years, people have been protecting their feet with some type of covering, initially using animal hides and fur.

As readers of my columns know, I am an ardent student of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

After two decades of offshore productions in low-cost countries, manufacturers are now struggling with the rapidly growing salaries and countereffects of cheap production.

Machine learning, the latest incarnation of artificial intelligence (AI), works by detecting complex patterns in past data and using them to predict future data.

‘It’s the shoes!” Spike Lee yelled into the camera on the Air Jordan ads.

Two of my articles (the first regarding standards, standardization, and standard work; and the second on