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How to Reduce Lean Waste in Your Manufacturing Process
One of the central pillars to lean manufacturing is minimizing waste. The original Toyota Production System, which outlined the basics ...Why Do You Need to Conduct a Supplier Capability Assessment?
A successful supply chain requires multiple parties to work together to meet goals. Perhaps you rely on lean principles to ...When to use Fuzzy Fault Tree Analysis
In the interest of Root Cause Analysis, sometimes is it feels like there can never be enough to tools. It’s ...Tips to Manage and Engage People in a Lean Event
Hopefully, this blogpost is something you’re reading out of curiosity and not necessity or desperation. However, if you’re in that ...Scientific Thinking: the Catalyst of Decision-Making
It’s 5 pm, and after a painful day at work, you walk into your local hospital’s emergency room complaining of ...Drive Your Own Professional Development
First, know where you want to go. It’s a lot easier to create a plan when you know your destination, ...Put the ED in SMED
Let’s put a new spin on a familiar tool: what if the “E” in SMED stood for Employee? Before we ...Take your idea up the ladder
You’ve spent hours upon hours before, during, and after “regular business hours” preparing your project pitch. You’ve reviewed your slides ...Momentum from Mundane Waste
That’s right. The waste you see every single day, the most mundane (a.k.a. commonplace) can become the momentum that will ...Lean into Lean with Cross-functional Team
Technically speaking, you don’t have to have cross-functional teams to be Lean or to conduct Lean projects. However, cross-functional teams ...
