I’m going to try to tie this into Lean, or so I think. I had the most mind-numbing experience at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (my home airport, Terminal A, near gate A35, last Monday night (Labor Day). As I…
Patient Safety Blog – Telling Our Stories Here is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man, who died sooner after. There’s no clear cause-and-effect between that error and death: The surgeon…
Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 Program Ok, so Boeing isn’t using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner plane. But, this blog report I’ve linked to says they were using: “… over-the-counter parts…
The Informed Patient – WSJ.com Here’s an article ($$) about hospitals working to prevent bedsores or “pressure ulcers” as they are called. I didn’t get around to blogging about this more fully, but it was in the news recently that…
How Boeing Got Going – TIME Evolving Excellence’s Kevin Meyer will comment on this after his vacation, I’m sure (read his other Boeing comments starting here). There’s a piece in Time Magazine and it makes a very misguided reference to…
TWI Summit – Website It really looks like a powerhouse lineup they are starting to form for the 2008 Training Within Industry conference in Orlando, to be held next May. Speakers will include: Art Smalley David Meier Alan Robinson They…
Here are demographics from my “5 Whys” survey, in case anyone is interested. I’m going to try to do some basic breakdowns to see how the data differ from large companies vs. small, etc. I wish the LEI would report…
Omron HJ-112 Digital Premium Pedometer One thing I am often doing in the course of my Lean work is trying to help reduce the “Waste of Motion” in terms of employee walking. This is especially true is hospital departments, where…
by Mike Lopez All these lead paint toy scandals are only the beginning. On July 12, 2007, Businessweek ran a story, “Made in China: Faulty Tires.” This story foreshadowed the bloodbath to come. For every scandal, we can expect several high…
DailyKaizen » Kudos to our VP Here’s a great story about a VP transforming their leadership style. If you’re in the manufacturing world, do yourself a favor and read the linked blog post while picturing your own environment, rather than…
The News-Gazette.com:Christie campaign has its seed in Toyota production system Here’s another link to a story about Lean progress in a hospital, this time in Champaign, Illinois. It’s especially good they are looking at reducing patient waiting times, MRI, CT…
From the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, of which I’m a proud member. I wish my schedule allowed me to attend this event: LEAN IN HEALTHCARE ON DISPLAY AT AME WORKSHOP FEATURING THEDACARE Neenah, Wisconsin, August 21, 2007 – Those interested…
