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Lean Manufacturing is producing the optimal number of items with the minimum amount of resources, waste and energy. It is a management philosophy that embraces all aspects of industrial operations by ...

Arguing that automation doesn’t provide value to manufacturers is like arguing that springtime is bad for farmers. No one, least of all the authors, would hold that there’s no room for ...

In pharmaceutical and especially advanced therapy manufacturing, the pressure to scale up, accelerate timelines, and cut costs has never been greater. In response, many organisations have turned to ...

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Viking Plastics embraces automation to help improve productivity, "and we do this while growing people," says Shawn Gross, engineering manager. Lean—be it lean manufacturing or the lean enterprise—has ...

Purists might preach against mixing information technology (IT) with Lean manufacturing, but automation professionals like Darren Hogg aren’t listening. The IT director at WIKA Instrument Corp.