One-piece flow, also called single-piece flow or continuous flow, is a lean production method in which one unit moves from one process step to the next without waiting for a batch. The goal is to reduce work in progress, expose problems early, and shorten lead time while keeping each step synchronized with demand.

A 2013 Toyota Production System redesign for a Food Bank For New York City partner shows the scale of the opportunity. Toyota reported that box-packing time fell from 2.2 minutes to 11 seconds, meal delivery increased from 25 to 450 meals per hour, and truck capacity rose from 864 to 1,260 boxes. Those results came from a complete redesign of layout, box size, packing, and distribution, not from one technique in isolation.

HAZOP, short for Hazard and Operability study, is a structured, team-based method for finding process hazards and operating problems by examining how a system could deviate from its design intent. It is a widely used qualitative risk-analysis technique standardized in IEC 61882 and recognized by OSHA process-safety rules.

A Harvard risk-analysis lesson once used a deliberately alarming example: dihydrogen monoxide can be dangerous in excess. The reveal is that dihydrogen monoxide is water. The point is not that ordinary water is secretly terrifying, but that risk depends on context, exposure, and controls. HAZOP gives a team a disciplined way to ask what could change, what could follow, and what should prevent harm.

Bread. Beer. Bacon. No matter what tasty food product your organization is creating, or helping to create, a robust food safety management system is essential. FSSC 22000 gives food organizations a certifiable system built around ISO 22000, sector-specific prerequisite programs, and additional scheme requirements.

Without a strong food safety management system, food can be exposed to risks and hazards that threaten consumers, trade opportunities, and the organization itself. The scheme turns food safety policy into connected work that can be implemented, audited, improved, and trusted across the supply chain.

Lean manufacturing principles help teams deliver more customer value with less wasted time, motion, inventory, and effort. They provide a practical system for improving flow, solving problems at the source, and building quality into everyday work.

This guide explains nine principles drawn from the Toyota Production System and broader lean practice, then shows how they work together in real production environments.

Lion Containers Ltd is the UK’s leading shipping container conversion and modification company, transforming standard shipping containers into bespoke modular projects; from secure storage solutions and office units to pop-up shop complexes complete with insulation, electrics, solar panels, and full-length windows.

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Calderys, a global leader in high-temperature refractory solutions, supplies critical materials to industries like steel, cement, and petrochemicals. With operations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia—including the UAE—the company supports extreme industrial environments with tailored, high-performance products.

But as Calderys expanded globally, managing workflows across continents became slow, siloed, and manual. Teams re-entered data across disconnected systems like SAP, leading to errors, delays, and duplicate work. Leadership struggled to track progress, identify bottlenecks, or get reliable reports. Visibility was limited. Accountability was unclear. Decisions were based on lagging, inconsistent data.

To fix this, Calderys needed a system to automate tasks, sync critical data between platforms like SAP and Salesforce, and give leadership real-time insight into performance to operate at scale.

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All businesses need a safety inspection.

And the humble safety inspector is one of the forgotten heroes of our modern age.

I know, I know, you get it all the time. People must be buying you drinks non-stop.

In the UK, for instance, there has been an 84% decrease in the number of fatal injuries by employees at work.

In 1974, Britain saw almost 700 people die at work. Now only around 100 die each year at work. That’s about 600 fewer deaths.

Map that back to 1974 and account for a fairly consistent downward trend and we can determine that about 13,500 people didn’t die thanks to improved workplace safety. And that’s just the UK!

Those lives are on you, safety inspectors.

To show our appreciation, we’re providing a whole bunch of safety inspection checklists – from the ones you expect to the ones you don’t.

In this Process Street article, we’re gonna cover:

• What is a safety inspection?
• Why use a safety inspection checklist?
• Over 40 safety inspection checklists to use today
• How to use Process Street for safety inspections

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ISO 9001 certification is an international standard for defining a quality management system (QMS). It outlines various criteria (or standards) to define quality management principles such as focusing on the customer, optimizing leadership and management within the organization, improving and fine-tuning internal processes, and general methods of continuous improvement.

If you’re working toward ISO 9001 certification or maintaining it, Process Street’s ISO 9001 software can help you document, manage, and improve your quality processes with ease.

Let’s break down each of the components of and ISO 9001 certification.

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Growing up on an island, my favorite food was in abundance: Fish.

However, whenever I ate at a restaurant there was always a voice in the back of my head wondering if the fish had been mismanaged and, due to that mismanagement, I’d get sick.

My anxiety around food safety wasn’t exactly unfounded. Fish is the most commonly impacted food group when it comes to disease outbreaks, and a quarter of a million people in the U.S. get sick each year from contaminated fish. And when it comes to all food groups, the CDC estimates that a whopping 1 in 6 Americans (which equates to 48 million people) become ill each year due to foodborne illness.

However, by not coming at food safety with a HACCP approach – and by creating and following a solid HACCP plan – these figures could be far, far higher.

Ergo: HACCP is important and, as a business in the food industry, you can even be required by law to go about HACCP properly.

To help you out, in this post I’ll discuss what HACCP and a HACCP plan are in detail, HACCP’s history, the benefits, and how Process Street can help you with all-things HACCP and food safety.

Just read through the following sections:

• What is HACCP (and what is a HACCP plan)?
• The incredible history of HACCP
• The benefits of HACCP (and having a HACCP plan)
• Use Process Street for all-things HACCP!

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This is a guest post by Reese McKnight. Reese is a sales veteran and editor over at JookSMS, a messaging platform for teams and customers. Hailing from Royersford, Pennsylvania, she started out as a sales assistant in local advertising. Her favorite pastime is trying out new cuisines and board games.

Widespread business changes, caused by COVID-19, have affected global trade and supply chains significantly.

Hundreds and thousands of businesses around the world are having to navigate newly implemented no-contact policies for the safety of both themselves and their clients.

What does this mean for logistics & inventory management?

This question, and more, will be answered in this Process Street as we go through the following topics:

• Logistics & inventory management: What’s the current state of play?
• No-contact policies in logistics & inventory management
• 4 steps to help you manage your inventory with a no-contact policy
• 7 top tips help you manage logistics with a no-contact policy
• Logistics & inventory management in a nutshell

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