Tag: Waste

Xerox's Reusable Paper (TreeHugger)I saw this featured in Time as one of their inventions of the year. I've seen "digital paper" before, but...

How GM Handles a Hit: Build Fewer - WSJ.comWelcome to new readers from the MoneyCentral MSN blog. To explore more about "Lean," visit the...

I'm in Seattle, about a mile from the stadium where the Seahawks are playing the Saints tonight. I was tempted to get a ticket,...

Guest Post By Mike Thelen:--------------------------------I received an interesting piece of "junk mail" this morning. What caught my attention and provoked me to open...

With our Lean efforts, it's always good to ask, are we:Copying Toyota's past methods,Copying Toyota's current methods ORCopying Toyota's thought process and conceptsIf you're...

Medical mix-up, unnecessary mastectomy - Health - MSNBC.com This will happen again, unless the process is fixed. Lean can help. Please read on... I...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement ArticleThis article from the IHI talks about the need to find "muda" (waste) in hospitals. They say:"In the health...

Star-Telegram.com 09/03/2007 A closer look at four survey participants:There was a feature in the local paper a few weeks back about what...

www.kansascity.com | 09/10/2007 | To survive and thrive in these days of globalization, manufacturing companies must carve away the fat.Here's a nice news story...

Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 ProgramOk, so Boeing isn't using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner...

How many trees did your iPhone bill kill? - USATODAY.com As with my petty hotel complaints, here's another example of a company doing "too much"...

Here's a light hearted topic for Lean Thinkers. "Overprocessing" is one of the 8 Types of Waste that we talk about in a Lean...