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There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...

In our previous blog we posed a broad question, where do operators fit with current manufacturing technology trends? More specifically, we asked: What if we could map out each manufacturing process, ...

As we have previously covered on this blog, the primary purpose of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology is to eliminate waste and reduce variation in manufacturing, service and design processes, thus ...