INNOVATIVE LEAN INSIGHTS
Your go-to resource for mastering material flow, curated by experts. Gain the knowledge you need to boost efficiency and stay ahead.INNOVATIVE LEAN INSIGHTS
Your go-to resource for mastering material flow, curated by experts. Gain the knowledge you need to boost efficiency and stay ahead.
5 Common Warehouse Management Challenges and their Solutions
Warehouse management challenges aren’t new, but with increasing consumer demand for e-commerce orders and accelerated shipment scheduling, they certainly feel more pressing these days. If you’re experiencing warehouse management challenges that you know are holding...
Geolean USA State of Manufacturing Survey
This past July (2020), Geolean USA conducted a brief State of Manufacturing survey to better understand the unique production challenges manufacturers are facing as a result of the Covid-19 virus. Surveys went out to nearly 4,000 contacts across 800 diverse North...
Material Handling Equipment 101: What Cart System is Best For My Facility?
Successful material delivery often requires a combination of solutions that work together as an efficient, cohesive material flow system. If you're planning to invest in a material handling cart system, there are factors to consider that will ensure the end solution...
Benefits of Customizable Material Handling Carts (Top Hat Carts)
Top hat carts are a customizable material handling solution that can offer versatility and cost-savings to any warehouse or production facility. Simply put, a top hat is a convertible assembly that sits on top of a standard flat top cart deck. This allows your team...
Social Distancing in Manufacturing
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers find themselves in a unique environment and are working hard to adapt quickly. For many, production must continue as you develop essential goods in this time of crisis. To keep facilities online and personnel safe, many...
Live Design to Support Changing Times
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique environment for today’s manufacturers. Some of Geolean USA’s existing tools, such as live design, have become even more valuable to our clients today, as we work to support manufacturers implementing social distancing...
Custom Delivery Carts in the Warehouse – Geolean Warehouse Solutions
Previous installments of the “Geolean Warehouse Solutions” series have focused on incorporating flow racks into pallet racking and customizing workstations for packaging and simplified order processing. The next logical consideration when looking at ways to improve...
Efficiency With Custom Workstations – Geolean Warehouse Solutions
In the first article of the “Geolean Warehouse Solutions” series, we talked about making your pallet racking work for you by incorporating flow racks. Once your pallet racking is squared away and “flowing” properly, you can move on to the value-add areas of your...
Flow Racks in the Warehouse – Geolean Warehouse Solutions
Flexible warehousing is a hot topic in the warehousing industry today. More and more companies need to store high-turnover inventory for short periods of time. Add that to the fact that companies are trying to do more — more production and more product output — with...
How To Easily Implement a Shadow Board In The Workplace
A custom shadow board organizes your workspace by creating the perfect place for every tool and visually indicating when these tools are missing. Mechanics and operators won’t need to search around to find the right tool, and workstations will be clean and organized...
How Does Lean Manufacturing Improve My Bottom Line?
So, you’re interested in pursuing lean manufacturing. Maybe some of your competitors have implemented lean strategies with success, or maybe you know it’s your only option to efficiently integrate that new product line into your facility. It’s clear that lean...
6 Questions To Ask A Lean Manufacturing Consultant Before Hiring
Hiring a lean manufacturing consultant isn’t an easy task. “Consultants” are often viewed as “armchair quarterbacks”; having strong opinions about every play made yet having little or no skin in the game to actually affect the outcome. But if you’re serious about...
5 Cart Applications to Improve Material Flow in Manufacturing Plants
Material handling carts are used to improve material flow through any operation. However, even operations that use carts effectively sometimes struggle to identify good cart applications. They use too many forklifts, move things manually, or have stagnant inventory....
The Value Of Your Lean Implementation Is Equal To Your Ambition
Lean can be effectively applied at any scale of time or space. Action implemented in a span of one minute or one decade. A system coordinated between five cells or five countries. The incredible power of lean is the power of scale. It’s also an incredible weakness....
Supporting Hands-Free Material Delivery
Geolean supports our clients by designing and installing systems that create flow. Flow of materials and information is the best way to create durable improvements in safety, quality, and productivity. Correctly designed flow systems improve operations today and build...
How Flow Concepts Improve Operator Health and Safety
You can hear the health, safety, and environment (HSE) team from the next room - flow? What does flow have to do with me? Maybe more than you realize. HSE has a big job to do. The health and safety of operations personnel during normal production operation...
What Does It Mean To Engineer Material Flow?
The best way to understand engineered material flow is to consider the opposite. Randomly moving stuff, expedited! is one we encounter often. What is engineered material flow? A correctly designed material flow system is dynamic, interactive, and...
Create Better Material Flow With Effective Flow Rack Design
Flow racks are critical equipment to a healthy material flow system. A previous blog highlighted uses for flow racks and how they could be used to improve material flow, so now is the time to get into the detail of how they should be designed to work effectively. This...
Why Manufacturing Workstation Design Matters
When I walk into your plant, the attitude of the people and their interaction with their work environment is a quick indicator of your company’s attitude. Too often there are frustrated people struggling in a poorly designed environment with equipment poorly suited to...
Lean Lessons From Food: Taste The Ants, Flow The Juice
There is an enjoyable Netflix documentary called “Chef’s Table”, and I had a chance to catch a few episodes this weekend. The show provides great insight into the working patterns of amazing chefs along with the context of their pursuit of the profession. There’s not...