Lean Thoughts

to ensure success, there are many factors to consider before embarking on your lean journey.

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

Blaming comes easy. Complaining is a cakewalk. But the culture needs encouragers,

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

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.

This is the time of year not to be Lean … Just maybe, someday our world will be as peaceful

there are still many opportunities to prepare your businesses for a banner year. Here are five ...

The 14 Principles of Process Design, in 4 categories – each beginning with “P” – hence many have referred to this as the “4 – P” approach.

Taiichi Ohno's book “Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production” would be better translated as "Aiming for Non-Scale Management

Leaders will do a lap through the facility to see how things are performing and get data inputs just in case someone presents a question.

Lack of knowledge and why do commentators keep suggesting that JIT can’t work in a chaotic world?

methodologies and the typical benefits that can be achieved

Colin Powell passed away on October 18th he had a profound career. His lessons in Leadership are worth reflecting on as part of his legacy

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?

Have you Ever ... ? Answer honestly to yourself.

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