Steve Chicken, manufacturing growth director at EEF is running the new programme at the Aston-based facility to teach SMEs about the valuable ways lean can help businesses.
Bill Bellows’ column this month discusses the ideas of being careful where to cut those low hanging fruit from.
With the constant demand to reduce costs whilst increasing productivity and ensuring the best quality product, profit margins are constantly at risk.
Sergio Ros Hernandez is the lean and mechanisation director at G’s Fresh, an organisation of agricultural suppliers for produce growers around Europe.
Raj Mohan Thiru, a lead mechanical engineer from Wood Group PSN Kazstroy JSC, comes to LMJ all the way from Kazakhstan and analyses the rule of lean in the industry of construction and design.
LMJ travels to sunny Florida for the 2014 Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) conference in Jacksonville.
Jason McQuillen is a founder and head of managed legal services at Radiant Law, a law firm head quartered in London specialising in commercial contracts.
Nathan Wilson is a continuous improvement specialist at the Ministry of Justice and in this article broaches the sensitive topic of going too far in to the lean bubble.
Consultant Mark Gregory returns to LMJ expounding the values of standardisation as a way of improving performance and living by the mantra of practice making perfect.