lean manufacturing
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Get organized: shadow boards improve plant productivity
Set up tools as runners, repeaters and strangers to save time and effort.
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Visitors are your best auditors: feedback delivers opportunities for improvement
Fresh eye of new employees, suppliers, sales reps and customers are always the best to question or confirm the effectiveness of processes.
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Going with the flow: how TPS and McDonalds are cleaning up
A new McDonald’s employee is taught to never be idle. If there’s a lull, start cleaning. The same principle applies in your place.
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Invest in 5S+1
Twelve people, five minutes each deliver an hour of lean enhancements per day.
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Tame variability
How to subdue it with formal problem solving.
Diagnosing lean
A journey in five steps.
Book review: Leading the lean journey
CEOs tell their success stories.
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Think Lean: Stand to observe
Standing and observing allows you to see processes, operations, tasks and subtasks really work.
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Working with flow
Set up workcells to minimize movement.
Fries with that? | PLANT
What McDonalds teaches us about robust, lean processes.
Give lean a lift | PLANT print issue
11 tips for rejuvenating the culture
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Planning for next year? | PLANT
Take process improvements to the next level.
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Making the lean transformation
10 tips to lead the way
