Lean Thoughts

The sterile and clinical approach to classifying and categorizing your inventory is to sector it with an A, B, C, designation. Personally, I find this extremely boring and find that replacing the ABC classes with "Runners, Repeaters and Strangers"

BOM management is much more than just drawing up a list of items. Here is how to expertly manage your BOMs.

Alarm Bells were sounded, highlighting a critical concern that Standardized Work was eliminating Innovation within the workplace.

This post is not to question making changes but rather how. First, you when you decide to machine a part you would not start until someone had provided you with a drawing so you know what you will be creating. Similar if you decide to build a house I am certain you will start with some key requirements like the number of bedrooms and bathrooms ... the requirements will then be incorporated into a blueprint so the builder will understand what you want and the blueprint quanti

Going to See with a purpose. In lean management, we call this "going to gemba"—the actual place where value is created. Not to inspect, but to understand, support, and coach.

Creator of your strategic Plan you are not only a forecaster. you are also a Futurist.

another AI Guru in a seminar who quickly advised me that even a mathematical formula is AI.

Chatbots such as ChatGPT can provide direct answers to your questions. But, compared to a regular Google search, the amount of knowledge gained is less.

whether a product or service should be dual sourced. Before we explore the merits of both let us first place the provider in the proper context.

I LOVE my Suppliers, I mean really LOVE them, so much so I am constantly wanting to hire them .

Whether you’re in retail, service or manufacturing, it is all about CASH! As much as things change… the one constant measurement of a successful business is the amount of positive cash flow generated.

Leverage your Value Stream Mapping exercises to become more environmentally friendly. 

Let me cut to the chase if you want Lean as part of your organizational DNA you need to start with Management Daily Report-Outs.

Standard Work. My immediate response, was no friggin way !! No body is going to control every minute of my day by telling what to do, when to do it and why?

Manufacturers are masters of improvisation. We’re good at figuring things out on the fly.

Sustainability relies on the importance of checklists. Although simple, checklists work! Even the most specialized professionals like pilots and doctors can rely on this simple tool to improve their performance .

Undercover Boss makes for good television. Imagine if you incorporated this methodology within your business operations, it would be the ultimate Continuous Improvement idea generator.

A Non-Lean environment is where ... Mediocre Processes are managed by Amazing People Whereas a Lean Environment  is where ... Amazing...

Solicited a Hospital to visit Manufacturing to Learn how to Schedule, Busted, I quickly became the student.

Team had purchased a container of Green Sofas from Asia. This was a direct assault on our core competency,