by Matthew Bryan | Dec 29, 2019 | Improvement Success, Knowledge
What I love about the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange is that it is a true exchange and opportunity to work with likeminded people facing similar problems with perhaps a different perspective and definitely different contexts. I really like the wide...
by Dantar Oosterwal | Jul 11, 2019 | Improvement Success
I tell my friends in manufacturing they have it easy. Manufacturing is easy to improve because you can physically see the work. You can follow the flow of material from incoming receiving to shipping. You can watch a part come into a machine or into an assembly...
by Norbert Majerus | Sep 15, 2017 | What is Lean Product Development?
In the early parts of this century, Lean, especially lean-sigma came under intense criticism: An article in the Forbes magazine (Norbert Majerus, Lean-Driven Innovation, CRC Press, 2015) documented results, mainly from 3M, which indicated that lean – or at least...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Apr 15, 2016 | Lean Product Development
Why leadership and team behaviors are essential to achieve excellence Many organizations seek to improve performance in a sustainable way. R&D departments are no different. Lean offers a holistic approach to improve: holistic, because it does not only contain...
