Luke Van Dongen

Luke Van Dongen
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Luke, an auto industry engineering veteran, blogged here from 2005 to 2006.

Linking Lean Thinking to Education – Conference Notes: Womack’s vision of...

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By Luke Van Dongen I am a huge fan of Jim Womack's ability to identify and describe problems within complex systems simply and absolutely. Womack...

Applying Lean Tools to University Courses: Go & See

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By Luke Van DongenNext in the blog series on the topic of applying lean tools to university courses is 'Go & See', which I...

Linking Lean Thinking to Education – Conference Notes: Applying Lean Tools...

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By Luke Van Dongen For me, the topic of applying lean principles and tools to the classroom was the best part of the Linking Lean...

The Tragedy of Waste

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By Luke Van DongenI was very fortunate to have met Bob Emiliani at the Linking Lean Thinking to Education conference in Worcester Mass last...

Linking Lean Thinking to Education – Conference Notes: Lean Certification

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My apologies for the delay in following through with posts from the EdNet / LEAN conference. Here's a bit on one of the...

"We make it easy to do it right"

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I saw the phrase in the title of this post on a BFI bin for recycling pop cans. I believe BFI was purchased...

Linking Lean Thinking to Education – Conference Notes

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Last week I attended the joint meeting of LEAN (Lean Education Academic Network) and EdNet (Lean Aerospace Initiative Education Network) in Worcester Massachusetts. Here's...

Linking Lean Thinking to Education

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For those interested in lean applications to education, there is an upcoming conference that you may want to check out.The conference is co-hosted by...

Giving a Great Apology

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I'm sure that among the readers of The Lean Blog there there is nothing but support for the lean principles of developing and respecting...

Because that’s not on my list

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Like Mark, I'm frustrated today.Recently I've been working to support a quality improvement blitz within a manufacturing facility. The plant is taking a step...

Lean & Flexible

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Are lean and flexible equivalent terms?I've been seeing more and more about flexibility and hearing the term used interchangeably with lean. Flexibility, mainly referring...

Everyday Lean – Managing Your Files

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In the age of file sharing, FTP sites, all sorts of web based collaboration tools and the ever dreaded email attachment, it's as though...