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Seven Tips For Being An Effective Lean Leader

Lean Leadership Lean is about creating a culture of continuous improvement, where everyone—from the CEO to the cleaner—is working together to eliminate waste, cut costs, and improve quality. Lean is based on a number principles that can be applied at every level. These principles include: Eliminate waste…

How To Cut Waste And Increase Productivity By Implementing Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing is a culture and a strategy. It’s a way of doing things that helps companies improve efficiency, quality, and flexibility. It’s not just about tools and processes—it’s about people, too. Lean Manufacturing is all about making things more efficient. It focuses on eliminating waste and…

Continuous Improvement: The Simple Philosophy That Can Help Your Business Thrive

Continuous Improvement, The 1% rule, or Marginal Gains, whatever terminology you want to call it, they are all similar in philosophy and application. It is the idea of focusing on small incremental improvements to grow your business easily. The most successful businesses are always striving to improve…

Manufacturing UK Chat – Engaging the Younger Generation

Discussion on the following How do we get Manufacturers playing an active role in recruiting and engaging the younger generation? How can SME's get involved in the Virtual Intern and UK Manufacturing Festivals initiative?

The Lost Art of Activity Sampling: A Forgotten Tool in Modern…

Activity Sampling and more over Time Study Techniques seem to be a lost art within Manufacturing nowadays. Activity Sampling for me, is one of those essential tools that you keep in your back pocket, a fantastic technique that enables to economically study a lengthy activity or a…

Productivity – SMEs Making Slow Progress

UK Productivity and the SME focus I do find it interesting in reading reports on UK Productivity and the SME focus on how there are a lot of SMEs making slow progress in this arena. If we step back, which some reports have eluded to… the SME…

Best Times to Post to LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook 2019

Most Marketers, Business Owners, Social Media Associates are always trying to find the magical time to post on each platform, unfortunately there is no magical time, there is no cheat, no silver bullet. It depends on your ideal audience, industry, products/services, content, consistency (always be mindful of…

BullS*^t Sales Tactics – Don’t Do it!

I was stood at Exhibition Floor Layout today trying to find a particular company I had arranged to meet, I began to notice and listen to the conversation of 3 Sales People next to me, they seemed to be from the same company or team (I’m assuming…

Make It Ugly!

Expose the Problem for What it is – Waste, Cost, In-Efficiency Always find it interesting how we accept things in our manufacturing processes, we’ve highlighted it as an issue so many times, but it hasn’t been resolved or it has always been like that. Example, we are…