Many components of a lean journey require a lot of activity: training, steering team meetings, benchmarking and study. These activities can consume vast resources and make those involved feel upbeat ...

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." These nine words were said to be the most feared sentence of President Reagan. Over 20 years later, many companies still feel the same way when they ...

The challenge, to those contractors implementing Lean, is to make and then sustain the improvement. Here are five ways to help sustain the changes, once you have implemented them. There is much ...

If you are seeking a quick and successful lean implementation, forget it. Quite simply, lean implementations frequently are referred to as lean journeys for good reason: They take time, and they are ...

In traditional Lean thinking, what is waste? Running across the factory floor to get a tool? Yes. Waiting for someone down the line to finish up their part of the assembly? Definitely. Leaving the ...

OBJECTIVE: The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a key factor in the regulation of energy balance and body fat storage;however, to what extent the physical activity during the childhood years ...

Objective: To study the effect of oral oleoyl-estrone on the plasma lipoprotein profile and tissue lipase activities in order to determine the handling of circulating lipids by adipose tissue, liver ...