Scotsman.com News – Health – NHS Lothian looks to Far East for ideas Here’s another good example of Lean progress in the UK. In Scotland, they are now focusing on suggestions from front-line employees: “FRONTLINE health workers are to help…
LeanBlog Podcast #32 once again features our friend and frequent guest, Norman Bodek, noted lean author, consultant, and President of PCS Press. In this episode, Norman talks about his recent study trip to Japan and what he saw there. If…
IIE Blog Directory I’m happy to support the Institute of Industrial Engineers (I’m a member) with my exclusive “Everyday Lean” blog posts (appearing weekly, or so). Recent posts of mine: Poka Yoke at the Airport Waste of Transportation on ABC…
Lean manufacturing in action is a beautiful thing The link above is a column in a Wisconsin newspaper. He visited a plant “a few months ago” and is just now writing about it. I guess the lead times in newspaper…
I know it’s weird that I have my camera in a bathroom, but it was a solo bathroom and I always have a camera in my pocket when doing Lean work. I ran across this papertowel dispenser and it wasn’t…
Sharp takes a gamble on new TV plant in Mexico – USATODAY.com Good article in the USA Today today. Sorry for the redundant redundancy there. I’m reminded of an earlier post about Olevia building some TV’s in the US. I’m…
As I thought about this post earlier, with the employee quote about being beaten down, I had a flashback to my time at GM, circa 1996. While we were in the midst of trying to implement Toyota methods, with the…
NWA puts an emphasis on service I saw this article in the Detroit paper when connecting on a Northwest Airlines flight today. My flight crews were both professional — in spite of the way management has treated them over the…
Got Boondoggle? – Main It’s nice to see Mike Wroblewski posting actively on his blog again, after about a month away. Think MilkA nice example of a simple, yet effective sounding, Lean exercise for a group. Evolution of Six SigmaI…
Xerox’s Reusable Paper (TreeHugger) I saw this featured in Time as one of their inventions of the year. I’ve seen “digital paper” before, but this is a concept where you can print and then easily erase the paper for re-use.…
I was wondering the other day about hospital advertising that you might see in your community (TV ads, billboards, newspaper ads). With the focus on improving quality and patient safety, is there a hospital somewhere that is advertising itself as…
The Sun Chronicle Online – Opinion A medical error was in the news this week, a teacher was mistakenly given an insulin shot instead of a flu vaccine. Thankfully for the teacher, it’s not even something they had to be…