More Featured Lean Videos

• Video: A Job Shop’s Lean Transformation

  For shops considering a move to lean manufacturing—or a recommitment to lean manufacturing—this video is a great encouragement.

• Video: Time-Saving Workholding

  Erowa discusses workholding options for greater machining center efficiency.

• Video: Grouping HMCs For Greater Efficiency

  VIDEO. In a lean machining facility, grouping horizontal machining centers close together allows a small number of operators to use the machines efficiently.

• Video: Three-Machine Lean Cell At Richards Industries

  VIDEO. For this valve maker, a part that might have been machined in one setup on a multitasking machine tool is instead machined with greater throughput using a series of simpler machines. Company personnel explain.
  

• Video: Increased Productivity With More (Not Fewer) Setups

  VIDEO. Valve maker Richards Industries took a part that used to machined at one machine tool and added an additional setup on a vertical machining center. Higher throughput was the result.
  

• Video Profile: Lean Machining at Vanamatic

  See how this Delphos, Ohio, screw machine shop has saved considerable time by making its process on the shop floor more lean.

• Video: What Is 5S?

  Here is a training film a job shop developed to help its employees understand 5S.

• Video Tour: Bryco Machine

  Bryco Machine recently reorganized its shop floor to implement a leaner process. Here is a narrated tour through the shop.