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Continuous Improvement

5 Steps for Sustaining a Lean Culture

April 15, 2024

Operations

What We Learned: Expertise and Episodes from Three Years of ‘Factory Talk’

April 11, 2024

Quality

Are You Improving Quality, Or Just Managing the Status Quo?

April 9, 2024

Continuous Improvement

Boeing Executives Failed to Lead, Waved Off Lean

April 1, 2024

Continuous Improvement

You've Got an Urgent Business Case for Lean. Now What?

March 22, 2024

5 Steps to Prepare Your Organization for an Industry 4.0 Transformation

March 13, 2024

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Corporate Culture

The Power of Being Over Doing in Leadership

March 13, 2024

The essence of impactful leadership lies not in the multitude of tasks we accomplish, but in how we show up each day to create the conditions for learning and continuous improvement...

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Ebooks & Digital Editions

Editorial eBook: Boeing in Crisis

March 29, 2024

The global aerospace giant shocked the world in January when a door plug blew off a plane in flight, fulfilling many flyers’ worst nightmares. And, things have gone downhill for...

Safety

Stellantis Recalls 300,000+ Midsize Cars for Air Bag Risk

March 22, 2024

The NHTSA said inflators in side air bag curtains may throw shrapnel when deployed.

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Digital Tools

Design for Manufacturing: The Cool Factor

Feb. 29, 2024

Mikros Technologies specializes in sapping excess heat out of electronic systems, something that it only accomplishes with a strong focus on produceable designs.