Kelly Main is a Marketing Editor and Writer specializing in digital marketing, online advertising and web design and development. Before joining the team, she was a Content Producer at Fit Small ...

For small business owners, productivity and timeliness directly affect the bottom line. Understanding production lead time and throughput time can help you be strategic about increasing efficiency in ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Last night on my way out the door from our News 6 studio, I noticed an alert come racing across my phone screen saying “FREEZE WARNING.” It did in fact take me by surprise, especially ...

A master production schedule is used to implement a production plan. The production schedule determines what will be produced, the quantity to be produced, and when the output will be produced. While ...

Estimating is a challenge because there are so many types of projects in various sectors. The types of projects that estimators are expected to work on vary from one contractor to another. Some ...

A seamless supply chain system incorporates shorter lead-time technologies to improve overall efficiency and customer satisfaction. Lead time in the supply chain is the time that elapses between when ...

We are in the peak of the U.S. severe weather season, and tornadic storms have been particularly prevalent this season. During my tenure in the meteorological field, one of the “holy grail” research ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...