"Lean Laboratory" is being implemented in many industries, with the aim of eliminating mistakes, reducing delays, lowering costs and improving the quality of a product or service.Visit METTLER ...

We quite often get calls, or find ourselves in a conversation where somebody is inevitably asking, “What’s the leanest way to lay out my factory”? This is always a delicate subject because it is ...

Hospitals looking to increase efficiency are applying lean principles to centralized labs, though a number of considerations are key when planning such a facility. Northwell Health, for example, is ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When MIT announced in March that most research labs on campus would need to ramp down to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, Canan Dagdeviren's lab was ready. For the past two years, ...

Lean thinking originated with the Toyota Production System. Its success in streamlining existing automotive manufacturing processes led to the adaptation of those principles to other areas of business ...

Lab design has failed to keep pace with scientific advances and the changing needs of researchers. If, as expected, the next generation ushers in significant revolutions in the ways science is ...