Lean Manufacturing

Leveraging Systems Engineering Concepts In Operations

September 9, 2025

Value stream optimization begins with valid business process requirements in order to meet an internal or external customer need.

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Design for Lean

April 14, 2022

In this article series, we covered several topics in the area of product development and project management.  We will now begin to explore process improvement with the topic “Design for Lean”.  While design for lean may be a subtopic within…

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Benefits of Comparing Lean/Kaizen with Agile/Scrum

April 14, 2022

By comparing Lean/Kaizen with Agile/Scrum, those familiar with kaizen will improve their understanding of agile and vice-versa.

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Achieving Lean by Identifying Forms of Waste

April 14, 2022

Our previous article compared agile/scrum with lean/kaizen and revealed several similar fundamentals that helped make each methodology easier to understand. Since the objective of lean and agile is waste reduction, we also want to identify and eliminate various forms of…

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