Don’t Strain Yourself Here is a great article about how a company has implemented lean to improve safety. Concepts like 5S and waste reduction go hand in hand with ergonomics, safety, quality, and productivity. Oh, and this company is from…
Lean Six Sigma Academy Blog: The Toyota Way Here is s news story that Ron, at the Lean Six Sigma Academy Blog, found on YouTube. The video is below and I had a few comments. First off, the reporter says…
Learning about Lean Joe Ely has popped up on his blog with an interesting post about a potential pull system for stocking soda machines with the right mix for the customers in a given location. Joe points out that prediction…
LeanBlog Message Board We’re getting some good discussion at times on the Message Board, people helping each other out with their lean challenges. Check it out. “Kaizen newspapers” is one term used to describe the publication of before and after…
Airbus cuts costs by learning from auto industry – MarketWatch Here’s an article that talks about Airbus and their lean efforts. The moving production line, which Airbus calls “lean manufacturing,” breaks with previous civil aviation industry practice whereby aircraft were…
Why U.S. automakers like GM and Ford are losing money – Jan. 26, 2007 Wow, leave it to a professional journalist to spin a phrase like my headline for this post. We don’t really need another post or discussion here…
U.S. Car Makers Stand to Gain From Bush Plans – WSJ.com: “Though many factors have contributed to the industry’s woes, soaring health-care costs are a big part of the problem. The Detroit giants are paying the price for years of…
No, this isn’t about Al Gore and his infamous Social Security “lock box.” This is about suggestion boxes that we sometimes see hanging on the wall in workplaces. With my current lean project, we co-opted the existing department suggestion box…
Productivity Cafe: Stop Junk Mail Lean Blog reader Osvaldo brought this up as an example of waste — mail that ends up in your mailbox (catalogs, solicitations) that goes right into your garbage can. Apparently, it’s “National Junk Mail Awareness…
I went through a discussion today that reminded me of a similar situation early in a lean effort at my old manufacturing company a few years back. Early in lean efforts, one of the things I focus on is 5S,…
Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: A woman dies after receiving 8 grams of Dilantin I read about this on the blog linked above and the source article is here. A nurse administered an incorrect dose to a patient, TEN TIMES…
NPR : Suit Maker Goes ‘Lean’ to Keep Jobs in U.S. I’ll comment more on this later, but this was on NPR this morning. Overall, positive mentions of lean, although there was a common complaint from a worker about having…
