IndustryWeek’s coverage of lean and continuous improvement over the past year presents a wealth of wisdom to help advance ...

The best old-school manufacturing focused on operational excellence. It was about controlling variability, adhering to schedules, reducing costs, and balancing supply and demand. It was good, but only ...

The market segment that includes collaborative production management (CPM), manufacturing execution systems (MES) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) evolved from a small group of MES ...

In the heart of Watkins Glen, New York, Glen Copack Food Manufacturing—a small but ambitious non-profit food packaging company—faced a critical inflection point. Rapid growth, driven by new equipment ...

Integrating technology into different areas of your business enables you to reshape your workflows with new capabilities and innovative models. It can also foster unprecedented transparency among ...

GE Healthcare’s Sarah Tilkens doesn’t have a background in manufacturing. What she does have is a curious, questioning nature. “I’m an experimenter,” says the senior manager of operational excellence ...

Savvy printing executives would agree that systematically striving for operational excellence is one key to financial success. OK, then why don’t more companies do it? The are many reasons, but I bet ...

KÖNGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Staufen AG, a Germany-based management consulting firm, and its subsidiaries 1. The acquisition will expand Accenture’s ...