Mixed Model or Six Sigma?
Is it Lean or Six Sigma? Just-in-time or Toyota Production System?At Leonardo Group Americas, we use the term "Mixed Model Manufacturing". But what is Mixed…
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June 16, 2017
Responding to Customer Demand: The Lean Way
Takt time, the rhythm or beat of a process, refers to the ability of a process to respond to customer demand. In a perfect manufacturing…
June 12, 2017
Double Your Inventory Turns
https://www.youtube.com/embed/58-WwOVOvW8Leading Lean companies are always trying to improve their inventory turns, which begs the question: What are the benefits of achieving high inventory turns?Free up…
May 11, 2017
The 10 Biggest Challenges of Value Stream Design
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NFccZ_hX4PE What is a process? Is manufacturing a process? Is install engine a process? How you define a process makes a big difference. On one…
April 20, 2017
10 Material Management Secrets We Learned at Toyota
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HdPM3evJFyMIt's almost impossible to talk about Lean without mentioning Toyota. They might use different terminology, but when it comes right down to it they have…
April 6, 2017
How to Assess Your Material System (Fast)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_E4kGtY4EWc What if your bank managed your money like some companies manage materials? "The cash you just deposited? We’ll stage it in the mailroom and…
February 1, 2017
A New Approach to Kaizen
A few years Gerard Leone, one of our company’s principals, was asked to sit in on a presentation by architects designing a new building for…
January 11, 2017
Is Lean a Method or a Journey?
I was recently told by a colleague, "Lean is not a method, it is a journey". Presumably what was meant is that Lean is all…
August 16, 2016
Mixed Model Design: What is it Good For?
So what is Mixed Model Line Design good for? If your instinctive response is "Absolutely Nothing!", then you're probably thinking about the Edwin Starr 1969 Vietnam…
July 14, 2016
Lean Centaurs: The Future of Process Improvement
I've been reading a fascinating book this 4th of July weekend: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, and trying to…
July 5, 2016