Lean Manufacturing

By adopting Toyota’s “target conditions” technique, you can focus lean efforts.

By Brad Cairns

Follow five easy tips to better coordinate your lean manufacturing efforts.

By Brad Cairns

Three easy-to-remember sayings can get you 90 percent of the way to lean success.

By Brad Cairns

How you onboard new hires is critical to ongoing success.

By Brad Cairns

Paying more attention to the non-value-added portion of your business could reap huge production advantages.

By Brad Cairns

Learn about the Three Ps between you and higher profit margins.

By Brad Cairns

Learning where to go and what to see can make a huge difference in production.

By Brad Cairns

A simple question asked in a different way can help you get quickly to the root cause of what you need to solve.

By Brad Cairns

Two of the most popular business improvement philosophies in the woodworking industry boil down to just one word.

By Brad Cairns

Sequencing: Are you getting just what you need, or what you really want?

By Brad Cairns

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