All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Chron.com – Houston Chronicle The question mark was my addition to the headline. I wonder if this what the motivation behind this comment from Toyota’s Jim Press was, saying “technology is key” or if he even said it at all.…
Ironically enough, the drummers in this photo are out of step. One is forward with the left foot, one is forward with the right. As a drummer and former marching band member (8 years in high school and college), it’s…
Lean Thinking Network | Competing Podcast » Interview with Pascal Dennis Part 1 Pascal Dennis interview Part 2 – Operations Dwight Bowen, someone I consider a friend of the Lean Blog, has a two-part interview with Pascal Dennis, author of…
Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins – New York Times So I’ve finally become a Toyota driver, driving an employer-provided Prius for over a month now. Answer to the first question I usually get, 42.9 MPG is…
I know the WSJ is making a joke and satirizing it, but here’s a classic example of non-Lean management to share. How would a “Lean Dog” involve the sheep? :-) Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The…
Episode #22 of the Podcast is a discussion with Allan Wilson, CEO of Factory Logic, a software company that was acquired by SAP late last year. Allan is now the VP of Lean Manufacturing Operations for SAP. We talk about…
IndustryWeek : Ranking Continuous Improvement Methods According to a recent survey of 745 companies, 40.5% of them say they are using Lean as a continuous improvement strategy. The number is higher if you include “Lean Six Sigma,” “Agile manufacturing,” and…
ABC News: UPS Figures Out the ‘Right Way’ to Save Money, Time and Gas “Efficiency is so much a part of the culture at UPS…” UPS has always been known as an Industrial Engineering driven company. Here’s an example of…
IndustryWeek : Where Is Your Company’s Next Big Idea Coming From? Chuck Yorke was co-author, along with our friend Norman Bodek, of the book All You Gotta Do Is Ask. In an Industry Week column, Chuck continues to make the…
Here’s an interesting video showing Boeing’s 737 line, moving at a takt time pace of 2 inches per minute. The referenced video has been removed at Boeing’s request (5/18/2010). I was embedding a video from YouTube that Boeing considered an…
Worldandnation: Scandal sires bureaucracy It’s too bad that the Lean Six Sigma component of the response to the problems at Walter Reed has been lumped into the category of “bureaucracy.” There are no less than nine blue-ribbon committees, task forces…
Worldandnation: Backlog has veterans waiting for disability claims Here is a sad case of bad flow, an imbalance in demand and capacity, and the impact it has on our country’s injured and disabled soldiers. Nearly 400,000 disability claims were pending…
