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Is Our Company Ready for a Lean Transformation?
Once you’ve discovered the benefits of lean business, the next logical step is applying those methodologies to your own organization. In some cases that’s a smooth and practically seamless process...
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How Can Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Track Waste?
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a methodology for analyzing the performance of a company’s equipment set, identifying several KPIs in how it’s utilized. The general idea is to produce a good...
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Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and 5S: How They Work Together
Total Productive Maintenance and 5S are two methodologies that seem somewhat distant, but the reality is that applying them effectively at the same time can lead to a great synergetic effect that...
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Lean Manufacturing: The Basics of Time Studies and Work Sampling
Those who’ve been working with lean methodologies for awhile can probably identify some common patterns in the way problems are approached, and the ability to correctly identify bottlenecks and...
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Achieving a Lean Operation: How Can We Discover Waste?
Waste is probably the most hated and feared word by lean experts worldwide, which makes sense considering that many of the ideas and practices lean is based on are strongly focused on identifying...
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TED Talk Video – Lean Thinking Applied To All
Can the lean methodology be applied to all areas of our lives beyond the workplace? Can we use the methodology to explore our full potential and make our lives more meaningful? This video by Bill...
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YouTube Video – The Significance of Lean Leadership
Lean leaders exist at many different ranks throughout an organization. They can be the hourly floor employee, a procurement specialist, a warehouse supervisor, or the director of operations. Lean...
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What are the Principles of Lean?
Lean principles are all around us nowadays, and it’s hard to miss all the talk about it. Yet at the same time, people often find it hard to pinpoint the exact ideas behind lean, and even some experts...
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Lean Manufacturing: The Basics of Workplace Organization
An efficiently organized workplace is the most fundamental step to guaranteeing the organization’s productivity and preparing it for major expansions in the future. Of course, actually knowing how to...
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Value Stream Mapping: Basic Steps to Get Started
Value stream mapping (VSM) is a fundamental lean technique that’s fallen out of use in recent years for various reasons, but it can still be of huge benefit to organizations that use its potential...
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What is the A3 Problem Solving Method?
The A3 problem solving method, like many other concepts related to Lean manufacturing, originated at Toyota and saw active use at the organization for a long time. The name is relatively simple to use...
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Applying the PDCA Cycle in Healthcare: An Overview
The PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle is one of the most commonly used tools for structuring the work of an organization nowadays, and it has found its way to numerous different industries and fields of...
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Tetra Pak Innovates With New Technology
Seeking to improve efficiencies for their ice cream producer customers, global packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has just launched a new ice cream cutter, which will ultimately allow producers...
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[VIDEO] Metabo Lean Manufacturing Tour
Lean manufacturing techniques are being implemented at some of the world’s leading companies. Metabo, a German manufacturer of power tools across all industries, is a leader in their industry and...
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Successful Implementations of Six Sigma in the Modern Tech World
Six Sigma is commonly associated with manufacturing and similar areas of the heavy industry, but the truth is that it has an application in many other fields, and it’s already enjoying a lot of success...
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The Benefits of Re-Evaluating the Same Data at a Later Time
Working with accurate data is one of the core concepts of continuous improvement, and you must always know that you’re relying on a fresh set of information that accurately reflects the current...
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How Can Entrepreneurs Grow Their Business Using Lean Startup Principles?
Getting your startup business up and running is a daunting project, but it’s just the beginning of a long journey. Properly developing that business into something meaningful with a strong position on...
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Why Large Companies Should Embrace Lean Startup Principles
Lean startup methodologies are gaining a lot of popularity nowadays and more entrepreneurs are turning to them as a reliable and familiar framework for developing their companies. And while it’s true...
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How Can a Company Improve Its Bottom Line Using Lean Manufacturing Techniques?
It’s hard to avoid hearing about lean practices nowadays, and their spread has caused a large number of people to not only start applying them to their businesses, but to contribute to the field and...
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Lean Manufacturing – Whirlpool Takes Quality to the next Level
For over 100 years, Whirlpool has led the appliance industry producing some of the most recognizable and dependable home appliances available to the consumer. Their brand suggests quality and value to...
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