Tag: Flinchbaugh

Leadership and Lean Manufacturing: A Conversation with Jamie Flinchbaugh – LeanBlog...

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Here is LeanBlog Podcast #6, the second part of my discussion with Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean. You can find...

Reducing Waste and Improving Efficiency in Manufacturing: Insights from Jamie Flinchbaugh

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Here is LeanBlog Podcast #5, with a new guest: Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean. In this Podcast, we talk about the...

Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise

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by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean I just got my copy of Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise. Of course, I...

Lean Lessons from Pluto

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There are certain things we learn while we grow up that are unquestioned - in fact, unquestionable. There are 26 letters in the alphabet,...

Incrementalism, or Making Change in Small Steps

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BusinessWeek wrote about Segway, the wonderfully inventive two-wheel transportation device that was supposed to revolutionize how cities are built. Of course, I don't know...

The Machine That Changed the World

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As posted by LeanBlog.org founder Mark Graban, there is a new website available that focuses on helping individuals who want to guide their own...

Labor Woes – Just Not the Kind You Think

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When people talk about labor, they often focus on unions, disengaged employees and high wages. But there is a much bigger problem facing manufacturers...

Value Stream Mapping Revisited

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Mike Rother, an excellent guy and also the guy that brought us all value stream mapping through the book Learning to See, has just...

Onshoring

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Onshoring may not be the counter-argument to offshoring, particularly since most of the cases are just KEEPING work in the US when it could...

Customer Focus?

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Here's some not-so-interesting news that I believe indicates not being focused on the customer and the subsequent focus on waste elimination. Harley-Davidson is changing...

Leading Lean August – Observing Work

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Also from the August issue of Assembly Magazine is my latest column of Leading Lean. The topic this month is the key issue of...

Dreaming Lean – as in Dreamliner

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Here is an article from Assembly Magazine by Adam Cort about Boeing's Dreamliner called Living the Dream. Boeing has been working on lean for a...
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