Table top simulation – dock operations
Simulation is the act of imitating or mimicking the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous. […]
Author: Lawrence Loucka
Total Flow Management
Euclides A. Coimbra and his associates at the Kaizen Institute have created a wonderful and detailed work on the application of continuous […]
Replenishment Strategies
Determining an appropriate production model starts with Demand Profile and Demand Segmentation. High volume low variability items, and low volume high variability […]
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream
Hot off the press from the Lean Enterprise Institute … Page 12 & 13 have a brief description of Coefficient […]
Coefficient of Variation
A measure of the volatility or spread of a time series around the average, for example of customer orders, aka Demand Linearity, […]
Demand Profile
Maslow’s hammer, or a golden hammer is an over-reliance on a familiar tool; as Abraham Maslow said in 1969 in A Psychology […]
Improve Turnaround, Shutdown, and Outage Duration: After Action Review
The practice of After Action Review, AAR, comes from the military, as in the US Army’s TC25-20 “A Leader’s Guide to After-Action […]
Guest Post – Minarai: apprentice, beginner; learn by observing
Guest post by Larry Loucka about minarai: apprentice, learner on Mark Hamel’s blog Gemba Tales: As I ready myself for a new […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Command Center
“Command Center” brings up images of NASA or maybe a natural disaster response team. For a large planned maintenance turnaround the furniture […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Scope Change Management
Uncontrolled scope change is unplanned work and this is a failure of either planning, reliability engineering, or management. Scope Change Management countermeasures […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Milestone Reporting
That’s a “GT” on the milestone, as in 10 miles north of Grahamstown South Africa. Milestones were originally stone markers used by […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Non Stop Critical Path
Maintenance outages, turnarounds, or plant shutdowns are complex, and can involve hundreds or even thousands of temporary workers, and are very costly. […]