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For Manufacturers, a Little Inventory is Healthy
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Peter Zelinski
It turns out that too much efficiency is inefficient.
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Going Lean in Order to Grow
By:
Peter Zelinski
This shop has a plan for dramatically expanding its contract machining business in high-value markets.
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What is Your Cost Model Costing You?
By:
Peter Zelinski
Our new expert in our Lean Machining Zone cautions manufacturers against using an activity-based costing method. This line of thinking makes it hard to justify needed improvements.
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What is Your Cost Model Costing You?
By:
Peter Zelinski
Some savings are hard to measure precisely, particularly on a per-part basis. That doesn’t mean those savings don’t exist.
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From Job Shop Chaos To Lean Order
By:
Matt Danford
Classic lean manufacturing principles are practically taken as gospel, but benefits can be elusive for manufacturers that produce a variety of parts in low volumes. This shop took a different approach to lean—one aided by software that helped identify a more efficient machine layout based patterns in part routings.
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