Lean Thoughts

I am raving fan of "Professor" Google or "Doctor" You Tube which between the two of them the majority (98%) of my questions are answered.

to help folks identify waste and ultimately improve process all you need to do is stand and observe.

The central idea of LEAN – that everything should flow from raw material to the customer – came directly from Henry Ford. Ford,

Are you controlling your schedule or is your customer? but customers want it Faster, Better and Cheaper, modify your schedule.

One of the key initial rules in deploying Lean Methodologies is to assign a specific owner to a process, task or assignment ...

All people can give is their "Gift of Time" but ultimately they decide who gets that gift ... how welcoming are you in accepting this gift?

For Lean Culture, Consider a rock-and-roll band. To excel at making good music the band must have ...

Annual Strategic Budget Thought Starters

The less wasteful a company is, the more profitable - assuming, of course, decent product

Metrics also serve as a powerful way to demonstrate improvement success to people who might otherwise roll their eyes.

Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

Cadence being the gait that needs to be observed with your information and communication flow and the repeatability of tasks.

It is the physical path that a Material Handler follows from a central parts location to various consuming locations.

unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

Really … it is common sense and you do not need 6 Sigma to figure this one out.

Turn these ten reasons why one-piece-flow will not work by 45 degrees, and you get the Ten Reasons for Poor Cash Flow.

COVID-19 has spawned its own vocabulary. “Physical distancing","super spreaders" and “elbow bump” have all come to mean very specific...

Ohno would quickly ask additional probing questions educating the engineer that perhaps they had “looked” but not “observed”

Workplace reorganization that transpired during Covid to protect people will now be expected as part of a Customer’s Value evaluation.

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