Thanks to StoreSMART for being a long-term advertiser and partner here on the blog. Check out their useful products for Lean metrics boards, visual management, 5S, and other purposes. They offered to create a useful “safety cross” template and other…
Are "visuals" and "visual management" the same thing? Are "visuals" always Lean, necessarily? In this post, I talk about the differences using an example from a hospital and my car's dashboard.
The recording is available now… How this was promoted: Join us for an unscripted (improvisational?!) Lean LinkedIn Live Talk Show on the Visual Workplace. Mark Graban, Karen Martin, and Elisabeth Swan plan to explore the impact of visuals in digital…
The Plimsoll line is a load-line mark on a ship’s hull that helps make a loading limit visible. It offers a useful lesson for mistake-proofing: a clear visual signal can help people detect a dangerous condition, but the signal still…
My latest episode of “My Favorite Mistake” is one with a heavy Lean focus, so I’m sharing it here with you today. My guest is Lee Houghton, a consultant based in the UK who has done a lot of Lean…
My guest for Episode #390 is Keith Ingels, the TPS (Toyota Production System) Manager for Raymond Corporation — Raymond is part of Toyota Material Handling North America, which is part of Toyota Industries. Wait, so a Toyota company needs a…
I saw this recent article from Malaysia:
LEAN Healthcare: Reducing patient waiting times, one small step at a time
They put Lean in all caps... it's not an acronym.
Anyway, back to the article. Their ministry of health is trying to reduce the typical department length of stay number from five hours to something shorter. And Lean is something they're using to help...
Here is the headline from the Dallas Morning News: "How Toyota improved Parkland Hospital's ER -- with purple lights."
I'll give credit to Dr. Fred Cerise, the CEO of Parkland Memorial Hospital, for reaching out to Toyota and TSSC for help...
Update: See the end of the post with some photos I took at the game yesterday where Beltre got his 3000th career hit – quite a milestone! Those who study and practice Lean often know about Taiichi Ohno, one of…
In this post, Paul Critchley writes about signs not being a good solution to most problems. Does posting a sign mean that people understand it or that it's going to be followed?
StoreSMART, a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer and retailer, has been an advertiser on this blog for over six months now. I also very much appreciate that they are trying to learn how to better serve those who are practicing Lean...
Gwendolyn Galsworth is a leading thinker and author on Lean and various aspects of "visuality." One thing she talks about in the workplace is "information deficits."
