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Process variation is one of the key challenges facing manufacturers in every sector and industry. Inefficient planning, non-optimal facility layout, poorly maintained machinery… all these factors and more can impede product flow and cause quality issues.

It can place manufacturing facilities in cyclical firefighting mode as they strive to meet customer demand for high-quality output.

Yet the solution is glaringly simple. Regardless of the number and complexity of processes involved, manufacturing excellence comes from ensuring every stage is fully optimized, with waste eliminated wherever possible. This shortens lead times, adds value, increases overall process efficiency, and improves capability.

Our best practice methodologies are all about making this possible – quickly, simply, and effectively. We have a proven Lean digital manufacturing approach that is completely tailored to the organization we work with. As well as helping you identify and eliminate all unnecessary waste throughout the shopfloor and manufacturing functions, our expert team of consultants will work alongside you to create and embed improvements in efficiency, speed and bottom-line profitability.

Our aim is to transfer our skills and knowledge around manufacturing to your workforce, so it becomes part of the culture and working ethos of everyone involved in the process, delivering on-going improvements long after we have left the premises.

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How Lean Digital Aviation is Changing the Aviation Industry

Lean Digital Aviation is a rapidly developing approach that is changing the way aviation businesses operate. It combines lean management principles with digital technology to create a streamlined and efficient operating environment. Lean Digital Aviation can help organizations by optimizing their processes and increasing their efficiency. The ultimate goal of Lean Digital Aviation is to identify and eliminate waste, increase productivity, and improve safety in the aviation industry, while also improving the overall customer journey.

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How the Combination of Generative AI and Lean Management Brings Value to Government Operations

In recent years, the combination of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and Lean Management has been recognised as a powerful approach to optimise government operations, particularly in countries such as Saudi Arabia. By leveraging their unique capabilities, generative AI and Lean Management can be successfully implemented to improve overall efficiency and reduce operational costs, ultimately leading to greater public sector productivity and adequately managing government resources for both short and long-term objectives. This article will discuss three success factors necessary for the successful combination of generative AI and Lean Management.

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How Lean Digital Manufacturing Enables Innovation in the Defense Industry

In the past two and a half years, as manufacturing companies in the defense sector have struggled to cope with unprecedented challenges and disruptions, lean digital manufacturing has gained prominence as an ideal method to solve the kinds of complex problems and disruptions caused by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and other world events.

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How Lean Digital Supports Companies in Achieving Net-Zero Supply Chains

Supply chain sustainability has become key to the fight against climate change. As the biggest source of carbon emissions for the majority of companies, supply chains generate as much as 80 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions.

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How Manufacturing Engineering Systems help manufacturers meet demand, despite disruptions across the supply chain

There’s no question that we’ve entered the era of Industry 4.0, described by pwc as encompassing “end-to-end digitization and data integration of the value chain.” Industry 4.0 companies optimize production to the fullest extent by connecting physical, virtual, and human assets, and integrating all operations and internal activities.

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Utilizing the synergy between 3D printing and Lean Manufacturing

The manufacturing industry is under ever more constant pressure to produce better goods more quickly and at lower cost. With increasing global competition and the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, industries must take huge leaps forward in streamlining operations, re-tooling plants, and innovating how they design and build products in order to boost or even simply maintain profit margins.

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