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by Prof. Torbjørn Netland
Jul 2026
Root Cause Analysis in the age of AI
May 2026
Are humanoids ready for factory work?
Apr 2026
AI in Work Instructions: Sharing operational know-how
Mar 2026
Is it time to evolve your lean program?
Feb 2026
Agentic AI is coming to Supply Chain Management
Apr 2025
Improving peer review by giving reviewers more choice
Mar 2025
Industry 4.0 explained
Feb 2025
Can AI do my teaching?
Jan 2025
AI and the future factory
Jun 2024
Smartwatches for job task allocation in manufacturing
Oct 2023
How explainable AI improves manufacturing jobs
Sep 2023
Warping in the real world: Remote factory meetings in 360°
Aug 2023
IKEA’s journey with warehouse drones
Apr 2023
Just-in-time: only for stable times?
Dec 2022
New textbook: Introduction to Manufacturing
Jun 2021
One more time: What is lean?
Feb 2021
A factory’s “rhythm” affects its pace of learning lean
Dec 2020
Lean and the Corona pandemic: A clarification
Apr 2020
Solving the ventilator shortage
Jan 2020
Teaching operations management with virtual reality
Dec 2019
Everyday lean
Sep 2019
How drones will be used in manufacturing
Nov 2018
Human learning beats machine learning
Apr 2018
10 favorite lean papers
Jan 2018
How new technologies shape the future of production
Jan 2018
Open process innovation: The future of operational excellence
Sep 2017
Kings and fat horses: Understanding muri, mura, muda
Jun 2017
Is 3D printing revolutionizing supply chains?
Apr 2017
Shingo Research Award to the Companion to Lean Management
Mar 2017
Five rules of productivity improvement
Nov 2016
The three “Ls” of lean management
Oct 2016
Augmented Reality: Ready for manufacturing industries?
Sep 2016
Manufacturing cost deployment: How to select the right projects
Jun 2016
Organizing academic conferences: Behind the scenes of EurOMA 2016
May 2016
Lean implementation tactics
Jan 2016
Academic life explained by WuMO
Nov 2015
Five critical success factors for implementing lean programs
Oct 2015
5S done right
Oct 2015
Lean in the primary school?
Sep 2015
Poor performance? The problem is you! (A review of Lead with respect)
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