Headquartered in Bend, Oregon with production facilities in Union City, California and La Porte, Indiana, American Licorice™ Company competes in the confectionery market by developing tasty products, using the latest Lean manufacturing processes, modern production facilities and information technology.   In the business of manufacturing sweet candy treats for the […]

Astec with a growing backlog, improved parts sales and expected cost improvements from lean manufacturing.   Profits for paving equipment maker Astec Industries hit a rough spot in the third quarter, falling 71 percent from year-ago levels and dropping to only a fraction of what analysts had forecast for the […]

Dowell Windows adopted lean manufacturing techniques to improve their work systems.   Australia’s manufacturing industry is in decline. Yet some businesses are managing to buck the trend. The question is what do these “outliers” do differently from their competitors? And what does each thriving business have in common? The Australian […]

Pfizer Ireland utilized a Lean Management Strategy.   International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) announced today Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals as the 2014 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) Overall Winner at the society’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV. Pfizer Ireland’s Network Strategy Implementation (NSI) Expansion Capacity project challenged the company […]

True Lean Certification making a difference.   Dr. William C. Thornbury Jr. is a family medicine doctor in Glasgow. Just a short while ago, he was like most family physicians. His waiting room was full, and he had to turn away patients. He needed an increasingly large staff to keep […]

Toyota adopted the principles of Lean Manufacturing.   When business cycles change, it may not be the end of the world as we know it, but it certainly feels like it for the unprepared business. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Research, since 1933 there have been 13 recessions, […]

The layouts of all our plants have been carefully designed to incorporate the latest lean manufacturing methods.   The 150th anniversary of the ARaymond Network in 2015 will also mark the completion of the largest and most ambitious industrial expansion in its history, according to CEO Antoine Raymond. Over a […]

In an invitation to the Lean Enterprise Academy ’s Lean Summit 2014, David Brunt included the following summary of Lean since 1990. It is a pretty accurate account of what happened — the only major omission being the omnipresent VSMs — and it goes a long way towards explaining why the vast […]

US turbine component manufacturers maintain the lowest costs on blades and have the most efficient manufacturing processes on towers, blades and generators in the world, a study claims.   The Global Wind Network research for the Department of Energy scrutinised the US sector’s ability to compete in the global marketplace […]

Amid growing optimism, the manufacturing sector plans to add jobs over the next 12 months.   According to the 2014 McGladrey Manufacturing & Distribution Monitor report, the majority of small and mid-size manufacturing and distribution companies expect solid growth over the next 12 months — and two-thirds plan to add […]