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The 7 Principles of Lean Software Development: A Guide

Lean principles are helping streamline the processes and drive better results in software development. Toyota’s manufacturing practices invented…

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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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Rebuilding Manufacturing in France | Radu Demetrescoux

Radu Demetrescoux has been a manufacturing consultant for 25 years and recently authored a Lean Toolbox (in French)…

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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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Waste in All of Industry

Everyone is familiar with Taiichi Ohno’s seven wastes in manufacturing processes. But let’s zoom out from the seven…

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Genba Scientists and Scientific Thinking

Scientific thinking has become very popular within the Lean community since the publication of Toyota Kata in 2009….

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