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In Search of Lost Time 0
- Lean Basics, Lean Management
- July 18, 2009
In all organizations meetings are necessary and natural to conduct business. As in all processes there are value added and non value added actions. These non value added actions can be very costly to companies and they don’t even “see” it. We have all been to meetings that don’t start on-time because people are late
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How to Save Time with Email 0
- Lean Office, Sharing Best Practices
- July 17, 2009
In our high tech society people love to stay connected and it is so easy to do so with email, IM, wireless connectivity, and handheld devices. Email is part of all businesses and replaces many other methods of communication. Email has become a wasteful distraction costing company’s lost productivity with all the interruptions. In a
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Stop Fighting Fires 0
- Lean Management
- July 13, 2009
Unfortunately, a far too common management style in many companies is the reactionary style commonly referred to as fire fighting. But fire fighting consumes an organization’s resources and damages productivity. Fire fighting derives from what seems like a reasonable set of rules–investigate all problems, for example, or assign the most difficult problems to your best
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Lean, Visualization, and Current Events 0
- In the News, Lean in Practice, Visual Factory
- July 10, 2009
I was watching Fox News the other day and they had a story called “Health Care Reform Visual”. They highlighted a video that Matthias Shapiro did using pennies to visual the financial numbers being talked about with Health Care Reform. Now you might say, what does this have to do with Lean? Well, the answer
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LSS Academy Guide to Lean Manufacturing 0
- Lean Resources
- July 8, 2009
I believe those in the Lean community who are practitioners and educators are always learning from our own experiences and from others. There is great benefit in sharing what you have learned along the way with others. It is from this activity real learning, reflection, and improvement takes place. Ron Pereira from LSS Academy has
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Simple Kanban with Golf Balls 0
- Lean Basics, Sharing Best Practices, Visual Factory
- July 6, 2009
Ron Pereira at the LSS Academy shared a great example of an inexpensive visual control using plastic cups. This has inspired me to share a kanban system employed in one of our factories that utilizes golf balls. As inventoried product is consumed by the customer a card signal is sent to a processing area to
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