If you ask people what they think about “Lean”, there’s a good chance the answer will be "reducing or eliminating wa

"You cannot imagine that we are actually producing in the 21st century." This is a statement that you may have heard before; or maybe you have already made such a statement yourself.

We start every process in Operational Excellence (OPEX) with an assessment of the current situation.

With the right manufacturing strategy, you give direction to your "factory of the future" and remain successful in a competitive market.

Procedures and instructions: the industry and services sector use them on a daily basis.

Nowadays, the product portfolios of our customers seem to be bursting out of their joints, which means that production processes are increasingly under pressure.

“Design Thinking”; a term that is finding more and more resonance in the industry.

Complexity. A necessary evil for some, a reason for existence for others.

The aforementioned quote probably sounds like an exaggerated sales chat: too good to be true.

Fact 1 ‘Lean Manufacturing’ is now a concept in many production companies.

SMED is one of the classic tools of the Lean Manufacturing arsenal, but does it still have a place in today’s market? Actually, that’s a rhetorical question.

Nowadays we notice different trends in the market which indicate that traditional business management ways no longer suffice to guarantee success in the future.