by Jamie Flinchbaugh Any growth story is eventually met wth an industry wide waste of overproduction, or glut of capacity. When this happens, plants have to shutter, jobs are lost and there is tremendous upheavel and angst in dealing with…
Throughout May we have been holding a contest for the best examples of Everyday Lean, examples of lean thinking that show up in everyday life from work to home and everything in between. Mark Graban, LeanBlog.org founder, has been sharing…
Bringing lean into our education system is a two-pronged requirement. One aspect, which has not been written about much at all, is applying lean within the university and schools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency. This is much needed as…
There is not much time left in our contest for the best examples of everyday lean. The contest will continue running until the end of May. We are looking for the best examples of lean in our everyday lives –…
There is not much time left in our contest for the best examples of everyday lean. The contest will continue running until the end of May. We are looking for the best examples of lean in our everyday lives –…
It is fascinating to see how broadly people are studying lean. Here is an example given by innovation and management guru Gary Hamel. He was giving an interview on management innovation and here is what he said about TPS: Could…
Here is a report from The Manufacturer’s recent lean conference in Boston, MA. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , , on…
Much has been written and talked about over the last two years about the “human side of lean” and the “respect for people” pillar of TPS. Only through our own failings, my colleagues and I learned the hard way that…
New factories started in the U.S. – we don’t hear that often. But it is going on. Here are just three examples. Viking in Greenwood, MS Cobra in Hillsdale, MI DuPont in North Towanda, PA Please check out my main…
For the rest of May, we are accepting submissions of Everyday Lean, examples from our daily lives of how lean can make stuff easier, simpler and more effective. Here is the original post and contest details. The winner gets a…
A couple of months ago, I wrote in my column for Assembly Magazine on a topic titled “Fix My Manager, Please!” The essense of the column was that we need to push harder up the ladder to get our managers…
Here’s another submittal on the Everyday Lean contest: While not being a perfect piece of technology, I think that spell check on email and word processing aps is a fairly lean idea. Having the simple visual representation of the red…
