Operations: Improve Your Relationship with Your Manufacturing Operations

* Keep a clean house. Lean manufacturing principles provide guidance for keeping everything neat, clean, organized and ready to use. An unkempt facility sends a message to employees that “we don’t care about the customers or the products.” Sometimes, simply painting the word “trash” on drums used for garbage to differentiate them from drums containing certain materials can kick-start a “no clutter in my house” mentality.