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The Secrets to Creating an Effective Value Stream Map 0
- Quality Magazine
- December 11, 2024
Business is growing more competitive every day. In order to keep up with customer demand and expectations, companies are having to work faster and be more efficient than ever before. Value stream management is an emerging business process intended to gauge the flow of value into business resources and activities as well as the flow
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Lean Tips Edition #308 (#3646-3660)0
- Lean Tips
- December 9, 2024
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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Lean Quote: Bring the Joy of Brightening Others Lives This Holiday Season Every Day 0
- Lean Quote
- December 6, 2024
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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100% Final Inspection is Not 100% Accurate 0
- Quality
- December 4, 2024
An “old school” view of quality control viewed inspection as the key to quality. One-hundred-percent inspection is commonly used to avoid shipping nonconforming product. Each of the items produced is measured and judged to be either conforming or nonconforming. Find the defects and throw ’em out. Whatever survived the inspection process was, by default, high
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