Bad Habits in Lean
What if I told you that there was a pill available that would make you heart-attack proof, dramatically reduce your risk for diabetes, and shield…
What if I told you that there was a pill available that would make you heart-attack proof, dramatically reduce your risk for diabetes, and shield…
This morning (May 25, 2016) I turned on Morning Joe for just a few minutes while eating breakfast, and learned (or was reminded of) some interesting things:Donald…
If you are a Lean Specialist, or a Lean Consultant, or just someone who is interested in Lean, you need to know that the field…
For years I taught the following regarding Kanban as a method for material delivery. First, Kanban is a pull system, and pull is good, push…
In the year 2000 I left this consulting company to join one of the leading simulation modeling engineering firms in California, the Kiran Consulting Group…
This post is inspired by an e-letter written by Jim Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute, on the subject of sourcing from overseas, or moving production…
In this podcast Leonardo Group principal Richard Rahn talks to the author of the book The Basics of Self-Balancing Processes: True Lean Continuous Flow, Gordon Ghirann.…
Here's the process that we follow for designing a Mixed Model Line, summarized into 13 distinct steps. The topics discussed in this post can be…
I run into this question fairly often. If you reduce inventory by $1,000,000, then the benefit or savings is $1,000,000, right? I have seen this…
I usually find that no matter how brilliant and original an insight I think I might have, a Google search uncovers 32 websites, 12 companies,…