It’s like the chicken-and-the-egg conundrum: which comes first, leadership or process improvement techniques? Recent success stories of governments using Lean Six Sigma, a process improvement program, ...

Manufacturers are climbing on the Lean bandwagon in droves. The IndustryWeek/MPI Census of Manufacturers, released in November 2007, shows that nearly 70% of all plants in the U.S. are currently ...

The chemical, biological and radiological threat to military installations continues to grow and expand as potential and current adversaries pursue more knowledge and expertise. The CBD Program is in ...

Do you have a process improvement program under way that you feel is going well? Lest you get too comfortable, you might want to consider the cautionary tale of a company whose program received rave ...

America’s end-of-first-life center will be evaluating and refining how it keeps track of equipment and how it records training, over the next year. Sierra Army Depot senior leaders gathered, March 14, ...

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality ...

Preparing for a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) improvement program requires a well-defined process and team-based approach. The foundation of any improvement program is the business assessment ...