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How are Check Sheets Being Used in Healthcare?
Check sheets are finding active application in many different industries nowadays, and they have become an integral tool for lean leaders worldwide. Their versatility and ease of use are factors that...
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What is the Importance of Tolerance Design in Six Sigma?
No matter how much effort you put into the design and production of an element, you can never guarantee it will be perfect in every way. In fact, smart leaders around the world have caught onto that,...
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What is the Is/Is Not Analysis in Six Sigma?
Identifying the customer’s requirements correctly and developing a proper working plan according to them is a critical part of any organization’s existence, and it’s actually one of the biggest issues...
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What Are the 5 Factors for a Successful FMEA?
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) Implementing Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in an organization often seems like a relatively straightforward and simple task, but it often hides some...
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Preparing an Implementation Plan for DFSS
If you’re looking to integrate Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in your organization, there are some fundamental points to keep in mind before you begin. DFSS can be a highly effective strategy for...
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Quality Improvement – Will It Ever Be Good Enough?
How many people involved in quality improvement initiatives have ever uttered this question? There have been many, without a doubt. You have been there before. Your team has just finished a project...
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[VIDEO] The Fine Art of Continuous Improvement
The continual improvement process, also known as continuous improvement process, is the ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek incremental improvement over...
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How to Use Robustness to Improve Product Reliability
Delivering a product that works consistently over its lifetime (and beyond that) is a challenging task that’s at the core of any organization on the market. There are multiple factors that come in...
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How do Workcells Improve Process Flow?
Many organizations suffer from a problem they often don’t even realize they have — a complete lack of organization in how duties are separated between the different entities in the production process....
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How to Use Lean Six Sigma Principles to Optimize Facility Planning
Planning ahead is critical when you’re designing your company’s facilities, and there are some common mistakes that sadly seem to get repeated far too often even in modern companies. Understanding how...
View Article[VIDEO] Concepts of Lean Leadership
Lean thinking is fundamentally transforming the way organizations operate. The lean principles of continuous improvement, respect for people, and a relentless focus on delivering customer value are...
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Lean Leadership – Are You Winning the War on Culture?
When there is a leadership change in an organization, there is always a broad idealistic plan on how things are going to change. Invariably, one of the first things a new leader will state as a goal...
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3 Best Practices to Reduce Changeover Time
Reducing the changeover time in your main production practices is a great way to ensure that more time is spent contributing to productive tasks, and that a minimal amount of waste is generated in the...
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Using Lean to Reduce Laboratory Errors
The problem of errors in laboratory work is still a prevalent one in research fields, even though a lot of work is being done to address it. There are various steps that can be taken to minimize the...
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The Importance of Consistency and Continuity in Facilities Management
Any facilities management program needs to provide consistent, predictable results. That’s one of the fundamental points of even doing facilities management in the first place, as it ensures that the...
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Elements of a Successful SMED Program
Single-minute exchange of die – or SMED – is a methodology for rapid production, which can cut down on the waste generated through excessive waiting in most production lines. It relies on extensive...
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Lean Leadership: Take a Deep Breath and Let It Go
For lean to be truly effective, it needs effective lean leadership to champion lean principles, offer guidance, and ensure that lean is being used to optimize the entire organizational system for...
View Article[VIDEO] What Does It Take to Be a Great Leader?
Leadership is tough! Research states that 46% of all improvement initiatives fail due to lack of leadership. Taken with other evidence, clearly more work is needed to develop lean leaders. One key...
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Implementing Lean: 5 Traps to Avoid
It’s becoming more and more common knowledge nowadays that lean can be incredibly helpful to an organization. Lean isn’t just helpful in production plants where it originated, but many other types of...
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7 Tenets of Lean Construction
Lean construction is rapidly taking over, and it’s important to understand its finer points if you want to progress in the business faster than your competitors. There are many points that can be...
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