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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.’”

Empirical Root Cause Analysis, Part 2

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Experimentation is sometimes necessary during root cause analysis

Empirical Root Cause Analysis, Part 1

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Much of the RCA literature seems to have deus ex machina solutions
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Mother Nature Takes On the Lean Home

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Rain is not exactly favorable for a tight construction schedule

Reflecting on Waste

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Producing more than is needed, or producing too soon, is the worst of the seven wastes

Solving Compliance and International Manufacturing Challenges

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Satisfying compliance to FDA regulations and client demand is greatly simplified with up-to-date technology

Nothing to Wear in Space?

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“When they saw me in my spacesuit... they started to back away in fear. I told them, ‘Don't be afraid; I am a Soviet like you.’”—Yuri Gagarin, first man in space

We Do Need Good Measurement Systems

The Invisible Enemy

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