Making the Most of Quality Data
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The data you've already collected can be reused for further process improvements
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Root Cause Analysis: Not Out of the Mountains, Yet
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Just because you've found a root doesn't mean you have found the root
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As you drive east on I-70 coming from the Rockies, there is a point where you seem to have stopped descending, but a sign says, “Trucks: Don’t be fooled.
Same Old Routine With FMEA?
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Scratches: Product failure or process failure?
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The Traveling Ohno Circle
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A few spare moments can be turned into an opportunity to observe processes to find waste.
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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
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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?