Everybody is a Job Shop – Mass Production is Dead!
April 13, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Everybody is a Job Shop – Mass Production is Dead! “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) And so began the age of mass production. In 2016, there were 226 different models of cars in […]
Make Everything You do An Experiment
March 23, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Make Everything You do An Experiment Lean operating systems unlock the value in business through continuous improvement that comes from continuously learning. The flood of learning driving improvement comes from an unyielding commitment to the scientific method. Two beautiful benefits of the scientific method are: you can’t lose – you always learn, and just forming […]
March 9, 2018 By Leave a Comment
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The Biggest Benefit of 5S No One Thinks About
March 2, 2018 By Leave a Comment
The Biggest Benefit of 5S No One Thinks About Most successful organizations have adopted some form of 5S on their lean journey. Most recognize 5S as a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri, (Sort), seiton, (Set in Order), seiso, (Shine), seiketsu, (Standardize) and shitsuke (Sustain). Some even add a […]
Flow When You Can – Pull When You Can’t
February 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment
The goal of perfect flow is to produce a product or service one at a time, defect free, immediately at the request of the next process. Successful operations accomplish this by flowing the value added activity of their products or services in sequence from order entry to shipment. Any time waiting or resequencing is a […]
