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Tool supporters can boost efficiency and reduce workplace injury in workcells and on the line.

Up to 70 percent of dross is bound-up metal that would otherwise be available for soldering.

Lean is not about what we see; lean is about how we think.

Apogee Designs Ltd. (Baltimore) has invented a tamperproof fastener that cannot be overtightened or undertightened.

A two-stage compressor is more efficient than a single-stage model.

Synchronous flow manufacturing applies lean principles to boost profits in a high-mix variable-demand environment.

General Motors plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year. Ford is expected to close four plants that employ about 7,500 people, and recently announced plans to cut about 4,000 more salaried jobs in addition to the 2,700 it has already eliminated in 2005.

Instead of producing perfect parts, manufacturers should determine what "quality" means to the consumer and equip their assembly lines to meet that goal.

Founded in 1906, Spangler Manufacturing Co. (Bryan, OH) makes approximately 2.5 million, every day!

Faced with increased demand for its switch-cabinet cooling units, heat exchangers, heaters and filter fans, Pfannenberg GMbH (Hamburg, Germany) had no choice but to take stock of its assembly processes in an effort to weed out inefficiencies.