In my 20+ years as a Lean consultant, I've found that there is one issue that more factories have difficulties with than any other: Material…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

To put it simply, there are three main objectives for a Material Delivery system. First, don’t run out of anything. Stopping a production line or…

Now that I have your attention, no, Kanban is not dead. There has been, however, a sea-change in the way that the Lean community thinks…