Tag: Flinchbaugh

Lean is about a journey, and it requires leadership. If you can not teach, you can not lead. On Father's Day I mentioned the...

From the June 26th edition of Business Week, The Welch Way by Jack and Suzy Welch was called Stop the B.S. Budget (need subscription...

This article appeared in the May 31st issue of APICS extra. It featured yours truly and covers the topic of the five whys. You...

Did I get your attention? OK, it was a misleading headline, sort of. Certainly, productivity and quality are important, as are safety and on-time...

by Jamie FlinchbaughMy monthly column Leading Lean for Assembly Magazine is now published. This month I focus on the staple of lean implementations, 5S,...

by Jamie FlinchbaughAny growth story is eventually met wth an industry wide waste of overproduction, or glut of capacity. When this happens, plants have...

Throughout May we have been holding a contest for the best examples of Everyday Lean, examples of lean thinking that show up in everyday...

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...

There is not much time left in our contest for the best examples of everyday lean. The contest will continue running until the end...

There is not much time left in our contest for the best examples of everyday lean. The contest will continue running until the end...

Much has been written and talked about over the last two years about the "human side of lean" and the "respect for people" pillar...

For the rest of May, we are accepting submissions of Everyday Lean, examples from our daily lives of how lean can make stuff easier,...