Lean Thoughts

Cost accounting drives us to local optimization but this paradigm is the largest obstacle to productivity improvement.

Maybe not so always eloquently stated but the theme is a constant mantra in all organizations.

A year may seem like a long time but it is also a very short time

You post a Memo and Assume it will be read ... NOT!!

Most folks feel that if they and their organizations are not working at a fever pace nothing is being accomplished.

As a leader you need to take time to “pause” to be “ON” your business rather than being “IN” your business.

There is a lot of Hysteria within the Lean Community about A3 thinking well I am here to shatter the myth.

feed-back and insights from first day impressions of new employees and visitors can be so valuable.

Clean to INSPECT .. and you do have the time.

the old timer who sued the drug company because the new sinus spray caused his arm pits to smell - in reality, the drug enabled him to smell

Until recently, RFID was more about potential than a practical reality because high costs got in the way of adopting this technology.

How to leverage the "hidden factory" as part of your winning team.

Our Philosophy of keeping an object in constant motion while adding value the customer is willing to pay for also became part of our culture

“ 50% of the waste in your organization is there because you live with it every day which makes it become invisible…

many times the wastes found are a result of poor designs. I’m sure that this poor design is not intentional though.

Consider that 60 to 80 percent of all cost related with meeting a customer demand is an administrative or non-production-related function.

Many of us know the power of Visual Management. It provides individuals and organizations the ability to Provide instant feed-back to...

Kaizen often placed under the banner of Lean it truly is the migration from Batch to JIT to Jidoka.

I challenge all of you to look at your organization as if it were a McDonald’s franchise. Not menu but at process.

In order for any Problem Solving methodology to work you need to have a strong Problem Statement.