If you’ve heard some buzz about Lean tools and principles, you’re not alone. Lean tools got their start in America as early as the 1900s, when Henry Ford used Lean methodology to create the Model T ...

Barry Arbuckle wasn’t totally sold on the idea. Sure, lean philosophies worked in Japanese manufacturing companies, but he wasn’t building cars. Could those waste-reducing principles really organize ...

Your lean culture depends on you providing the correct answer to this basic question: Who leads and owns the lean transformation? Who has the responsibility to create ...

Choosing lean meats and poultry can help someone keep their saturated fat intake within guidelines and reduce their risk of chronic disease. Healthier choices include beef that is at least 90% lean ...

Over the last decade many companies have tinkered with lean-manufacturing concepts, but few have enthusiastically embraced all of the elements required to unleash the potential of truly lean ...

Josh Ozersky has strong feelings about low-fat hamburgers. “A lean burger is an abominable object,” says Ozersky, author of “The Hamburger: A History.” “Everything that is valuable in the meat lies in ...