LEAN PEER GROUP BLOG

Problem: The projected weekly customer demand for finished goods was 25% greater than the plant's current 24-7 capacity. The client had...

Problem: The incoming warehouse is holding over $3,000,000 of raw materials. The warehouse consumes over 3,000 square feet of floor...

Problem: A traditional push manufacturing system is causing excess raw materials and work in process inventories. Therefore costs are...

Problem: Orders were being shipped late. The warehousing, packaging and shipping department was unorganized. A traditional layout was...

Problem: Customers were upset because the wrong products were being shipped to them. Final processing is very unorganized with no...

Problem: The demand for orders was forecasted to increase by over 20% within three months. Pre-Production lead times were too long. Many...

Problem: Labor costs were increasing for the warehousing, cutting and shipping processes because of lack of workplace organization....

Problem: Orders were being shipped late. Lead-times were too long. The warehouse was full of finished goods. Over ten percent of the...

Good Samaritan, Lebanon leveraged their culture of continuous improvement! As with any industry, healthcare has been impacted by the...

Working through the current COVID environment has been a challenge for manufacturing. The move to virtual support organizations while...

Good news when your manufacturing line grows with new products, but the challenge is how to quickly ramp up in your existing footprint....

With 99 days to go until the end of 2020, the Go-Lean-Six Virtual Lean Peer Group was hosted by GAI-Tronics, Reading, PA. The GAI-Tronics...

Clark Shoes Distribution Center continues to drive continuous improvement while meeting the challenges of COVID-19. During a recent...

How do we bring back our employees safely to this “new normal” while preparing for a potential second wave of COVID-19? How do we...

The risks from before are still there, maybe even more so now. Press conferences from politicians, advice from talking heads, masks at...