It is clear that for-profit enterprises manufacturing products strive to achieve their targeted revenues from their production reliably utilizing their available capacities and resources. Unreliable ...

Authored by noted data integration experts and Informatica executives John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Lean Integration describes why the integration factory will be the dominant new 'wave' of ...

This excerpt is from the first chapter (“What is Lean and Why Is It Important?”) of “Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility” authored by John G. Schmidt and David Lyle.

For many large and midsize manufacturers, the challenge of enabling the corporatewide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to mesh with their lean initiatives on the plant floor requires a ...

The seamless integration combines the workflow of the visual Kanban Board with a 10x more powerful analytics module behind. The newly launched analytics suite features charts such as a Cycle Time ...

In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...

New technologies are known for changing how we do things as a society or industry. The increasing popularity of collaborative robots appears to be changing how system integrators are structured The ...

The ISO certification has become a fundamental requirement for doing business throughout the world. In their quest for quality, many companies are adopting lean manufacturing methodologies including ...

Integrated Management Systems (IMS) represent a cohesive framework that amalgamates various standards—such as quality, environmental, occupational health and safety, and social responsibility ...