How to Estimate Your Value Stream Mapping Benefits
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a common assessment tool in the world of Lean Manufacturing. The idea is straightforward: create a flow chart of the…
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July 11, 2019
Lean Stabilization Audit
The Lean Stabilization Audit measures your company's Lean maturity in three categories:Leadership and CultureWorkforce DevelopmentOperational ExcellenceIf your company struggles in any of these three categories,…
June 21, 2019
How to Define Products and Volumes
Your product list is likely a table with a column for the product's part number and a column for the product's description. There will be…
June 12, 2019
Kanban Basics
The Kanban method was inspired by how American supermarkets managed their stock, with small amounts of product displayed on shelves, and turning that product quickly.…
June 6, 2019
Understanding “Flow” in Manufacturing
Flow is a further refinement on Pull, where you are moving units one at a time, based on customer orders, and also based on a Pull…
June 3, 2019
Eliminating Waste in Lean Manufacturing
A Value Adding task is one that advances the product. Value must always be understood from the Customer's perspective. Value is “in the eyes of…
May 31, 2019
Are Lean Thinking and Simulation Modeling Compatible?
We’ve been asked this question by many of our students, who believe that when you’re operating under a Lean methodology, instead of simulating something, your…
May 29, 2019
What do we Mean by “Pull” in Lean Material Management?
This video defines and provides an example of what is meant by "Pull" in the world of Lean Material Management.Here is the definition of Pull,…
May 22, 2019
What do we Mean by “Push” in Lean Material Management?
When you are pushing work or material, you are simply following a plan or schedule, and moving material to the next step without considering whether…
May 21, 2019
Material Flow History
In this lesson we'll review some of the origins of Lean Methods, as they relate to Material Flow. Even today, many of the Material Flow…
May 20, 2019