Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...

Almost by definition, continuous improvement is a long-term business strategy to improve your business in terms of customer value and satisfaction, quality, speed to market, flexibility and reduced ...

In my last article, and the first in our series on metrics, I made three key points: Embrace the notion that most factories are cost centers. Create the mindset of CI/lean, i.e., there is always a ...

The performance-punishing nature of poor workplace design is a persistent issue filled with musculoskeletal injuries and rising medical care costs. Many manufacturing and industrial companies attempt ...

In high-pressure, low-margin manufacturing sectors such as food and beverage (F&B), complacency is costly. Staying competitive means constantly improving how work gets done. Continuous improvement (CI ...

With the right approach to continuous improvement, printing companies can thrive if they’re willing to make the investment. To be successful, a company must recognize that processes are the central ...

In the past decade, the number of robots deployed in logistics has grown significantly, driven by the advantages of increased reliability, throughput and accuracy compared to manual processes. These ...

Andreas Eschbach is the founder and CEO of eschbach, a software company that helps production teams work smarter and enhance collaboration. Within the process industry, the chemical and pharmaceutical ...

Continuous Improvement (CI) is a term we hear a lot lately. Sadly, despite knowing the term and possibly even applying CI principles to some aspects of operations, CI principles are infrequently ...