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Implementing 5S in the Workplace: A Basic Checklist
Are you looking to implement 5S in your current workplace? The methodology can be very powerful and can result in huge improvements in productivity in most working environments, but it’s important...
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Lean Implementation Requires Grit!
Lean implementation can be a both a blessing and a curse. One cannot deny the value and results of lean programs across multitudes of industries. Anyone with any doubt about the effectiveness need...
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Lean Implementation Requires Determination
On paper, lean implementation looks pretty simple. In reality, it will be one of the most challenging things your organization will take on. Implementing lean processes and practices require...
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Project Charter: Understanding the Main Elements
A project charter is an integral part of setting up and starting a major new project in any serious organization, and you will need to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts behind it if you...
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How Can You Use DOE to Approach Product Development
Design of experiments – or DOE for short – can be quite handy when you want to figure out exactly what components of your product’s design are affecting its quality level, and are potential risk...
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What are the Principles of Lean Manufacturing?
Lean manufacturing is all around us nowadays, and it’s hard to miss all the talks about it. Yet at the same time, people often find it hard to pinpoint the exact ideas behind lean, and even some...
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3 Common Mistakes in Performance Measurement
Performance measurement is a very effective method for analyzing the way a part of your organization performs – or even the whole organization itself. It has been used in many professional circles for...
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Green Manufacturing and Frito Lay
The next time you bite into a crunchy Frito-Lay snack, consider this – that crunchy, tasty snack might just have come from one of the most sustainability-minded manufacturing facilities in the US....
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Advances With Lean Six Sigma and Healthcare
Just like any other organization, healthcare organizations do their business through processes, and any process can be studied and improved using basic Lean Six Sigma methods. The core value stream is...
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Poka-Yoke: Application in the Service Industry
Small mistakes can often lead to huge problems in the service industry, and it’s critical to maintain a high level of quality and attention to detail with every client. It should therefore be no...
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Applying the Theory of Constraints to Healthcare
The theory of constraints (TOC) is a methodology that seeks to maximize the potential of any system by investigating its constraints, and figuring out the critical ones. From there, the system can be...
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Applying the Theory of Constraints to the Retail Environment
By effectively applying the theory of constraints (TOC), you can optimize a process and push it towards its limits without actually violating any of those limits. That way, you can get much more out...
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Applying Process FMEA in the Healthcare Industry
Failure mode and effects analysis – or FMEA for short – is a solid framework for determining where things went wrong in a situation of failure, and to drill down to the root cause of the problem. It’s...
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Pros and Cons of Zero Defects
A lot has been said about zero defects in lean circles, and while the methodology has evolved into a somewhat new direction today, there are still valid use cases for it and it’s important to...
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[VIDEO] Learning More About Lean Farming
Ben Hartman is the author of The Lean Farm, a book on minimizing waste and increasing efficiency on the vegetable farm. He has farmed full-time for the past ten years with his wife, Rachel, in Goshen,...
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Lean Farming Adopts the Practices of Lean Manufacturing
As the global population continues to grow and the effects of climate change impacts our food sources, it has become crucial for forward-thinkers to better understand more efficient ways to feed...
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Value Stream Mapping: Why Is It Underutilized?
Good lean leaders can spend a lot of time telling you about the benefits of value stream mapping and how it can transform your organization into a more adequately structured and maintained one, but...
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Differences Between Manufacturing and Transactional Processes in Lean
One of the great things about lean methodologies is that they recognize a distinct difference between manufacturing and transactional processes. Whereas some other methodologies see the two as two...
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What is the Difference Between Process Capability and Process Performance?
Process capability and process performance are both useful indicators for determining the current performance of your organization. However, they are quite different in nature and a common problem...
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5 Ways to Verify Product Design Meets Customer Needs
Product design failures are one of the most common problems faced by companies today. These companies continuously develop and release products and services that are badly misaligned with the actual...
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