Toyota Change Point Management: Henkaten
Henkaten is an approach by Toyota to deal with changes in their manufacturing system. It is one of…
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Why We Need Visual Management…
Visual management is a hot topic in lean manufacturing. It is not a do-or-do-not method like kanban or…
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Why Operators Need to Measure Their Own Data!
The goal is to have everything relevant easily visible on the shop floor. Ideally, this is through the…
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Kaizen Through Growing Your People
As mentioned in my last post, continuous improvement (kaizen) is done through people, ideally close to the shop…
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Who Does Kaizen?
One core aspect of lean manufacturing is continuous improvement, or kaizen in Japanese. This concept emphasizes ongoing, incremental…
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A Common Mistake in Doing Lean: Skipping the Details!
Lean manufacturing is a great set of philosophies and tools to improve your production system, or for that…
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What are Good KPIs?
To control any kind of system, you need to know its status. For a simple system like heating,…
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Effects on Efficiency—Group Size, Line, Location, Product
In my last post, I started to look at factors that affect the efficiency of your line, in…
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Effects on Efficiency—Takt Time
Whenever I visit a factory where manual work is done, I try to estimate the percentage of value-adding…
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Lean in Government, a Comeback?
FEATURE – At a recent Lean Day, our editor was reminded of the immense potential of Lean Thinking…
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