Same Old Routine With FMEA?
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Scratches: Product failure or process failure?
Credit: Stef
The Traveling Ohno Circle
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A few spare moments can be turned into an opportunity to observe processes to find waste.
Credit: Luis Triguez
Lean Thinking 4.0
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Lean Thinking was born in the late 1980s when researchers from MIT studied the Toyota Production System
Credit: Toyota UK
A New Spin on the ‘Stand in a Circle’ Exercise, Part 2
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First find solutions, and then identify and track long-term activities
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Manufacturing Lessons from Space
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From aerospace to automotive to custom bicycles, if you’re not using the best technology, you’re not creating the most value.
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A New Spin on the Ohno Circle, Part 1
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When an organization finds and eliminates waste, it gains a competitive advantage
What Do You Mean My Production Is Wonky?
You can be known as a hard worker and counted on to tie up loose ends, but fall behind when co-workers’ tasks are on hold until yours are complete, and you’re perceived as needing an attitude adjustment. What would you want to do? Place blame or work on a remedy?
Finding Our Own Value—Growing by Understanding
There are those days where your personal kanban is on fire. You’re in a state of flow and tickets are just moving right along. The days go by and you look at your “done” column… it’s full. Really, really full.
Taking the Step from <em>Gemba</em> Walks to Layered Process Audits
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Layered process audits and gemba walks are both done on-site
Reading the Automotive Industry Action Group’s CQI-8 Layered Process Audit (LPA) Guideline, you might notice a line saying LPAs are “completed on site ‘where the work is done.’”