By Andrew Wagner: My wife, the resident space geek, turned me in the direction of this Boeing Press Release on their new lean “pulse line” for building GPS satellites, and presumably other satellites. Most of the post is your standard…
I stumbled across a piece Richard Feynman spoke some time ago about “Cargo Cult Science” and couldn’t help but extend the analogy to “Cargo Cult Lean”, or as Mark’s named it, “LAME: Lean as Mistakenly Executed.” First off, what is…
leanblog.org | Lean Blog: Bad Lean/5S Hits the UK Media I presented yesterday and had a great day (meeting people and learning) with the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative and their annual Lean conference. I’ll write more about their story later and…
Supply Chain News: Is “Lean Six Sigma” the Winning Approach to Manufacturing and Supply Chain Improvement? It’s easy to get tired of new acronyms and buzzwords. Here’s a new “TLA” (Three Letter Acronym) I hadn’t heard before. This article talks…
Time is short for a full post, so here’s an effort to clean out the backlog and to give you some links to check out:Friend of the blog, Mike Thelen, has an article expanding upon the “Lean vs. LAME” construct:…
Last year, in a fit of creativity, I coined the awkward term “L.A.M.E.” — Lean As Misguidedly Executed or, alternatively Lean as Mistakenly Executed. Either way, the “Lean vs LAME” construct is easier to swallow than the spelled out acronym.…
To build a better hospital, Virginia Mason takes lessons from Toyota plants A number of you emailed me about the above article that was featured in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about Virginia Mason Medical Center, a hospital that’s seen as one…
Lean Directions: LEAN vs. LAME It’s a bit recursive to link to a post that links to me, but Mike Thelen (a frequent comment participant here) has a new online column through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He always has…
General Dynamics workers laid off – SWVAToday.com It’s been a while since a Lean As Mistakenly Executed (L.A.M.E.) sighting. Or, in other words, stuff that gives Lean a bad name: About 45 General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products employees in…
by Dan Markovitz The latest issue of Strategy+Business, Booz Allen Hamilton’s business journal, features an article on cost cutting. Ordinarily, simple cost cutting flies in the face of real lean, but in this case, the authors’ recommendations incorporate an important…
Political Affairs Magazine – High-tech Capitalism and the Class Struggle: You might not want to click on the above link if you don’t want to risk a “cookie” on your computer from a communist publication. I’m not throwing the word…
GM teaches writers to build it right each time Updated: GM *does* do some kaizen in the class What we call Lean or TPS, they call “GMS”: General Motors Corp. touts its global manufacturing system as the reason it’s been…