Lean Manufacturing Principles

Here are 3 lean manufacturing concepts that can improve your manufacturing productivity. 1) Maintain a neat, organized workspace using the 5S. 5S stands for sort, set in order, shine standardize and sustain. When companies implement 5S as apart of a lean initiative,...

Manufacturing Job Costing

A manufacturing job shop that is a client of ours had a cost estimate per job, but it included lots of overhead allocations. The company could not separate out cash outlays from depreciation expense at the job level. This company was having a hard time getting new...