Kanban and Sustainability
Dear Larry, Andrew and Guanair; How are you doing ? I would like to share with you that We Won the Whirlpool […]
Dear Larry, Andrew and Guanair; How are you doing ? I would like to share with you that We Won the Whirlpool […]
Remember how you felt when you first started drawing your first Value Stream Maps? Well that’s how I felt when I first […]
Lean Sigma Behavior Other Customer Process Focus Muda, Muri, Mura Value Stream Map Flow, Takt, Pull Visual Management Process Analysis Problem Solving […]
We know better than to try to force fit strategies yet time and again we find businesses planning and managing their processes […]
Euclides Coimbra latest book recently made it to the top of my reading list. Kaizen in Logistics & Supply Chains is a […]
Why can’t Sales give us a decent forecast? Paraphrasing George E.P. Box, “All forecasts are wrong, some are useful.” If forecasts are […]
Safety stock is an additional quantity held in inventory in order to reduce the risk that an item will be out of […]
Bruce asked “Do any of you have any standard material classification logic that you have used. I’m working with a client to […]
We would like to announce a new entrant into the lean blogosphere, it’s called Lean MathTM (leanmath.com).
We know what you’re thinking, “Lean Math?!” Now, that’s a subject that evokes passion in the heart of every lean practitioner…right?
But, the truth is effective lean transformations require some level of math, whether it’s the often deceptively simple takt time calculation, sizing kanban, calculating process capability, or anything in between. It’s hard to get away from math. There is no such thing as math-free lean and certainly not math-free six sigma!
It’s never enough just to tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it in a […]
Kamishibai or Work Observation Card is a management tool for starting and improving Leader Standard Work,. Kamishibai, in Japanese means …. paper […]
Got asked what would happen to inventory when the number of inventory stocking locations change. I thought for a minute and remembered […]