Triton Products Review
Organize Your Facility with Triton Products When it comes to organizing a facility, products by Triton are among the best on the market today. They don’t just manufacture high quality items, but they help to innovate and improve the things they make to help your workplace become leaner and more organized. Whether you’re just starting…
Tony Ferraro | January 17, 2016 | Product Spotlight | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Safety, Tool Organization
Gemba Walk for Shipping and Receiving
Have you Completed a Gemba Walk in Shipping and Receiving? When thinking about gemba walks most companies immediately start thinking about the manufacturing floor. While this is certainly a key area where gemba walks can be completed, it is not the only option. In fact, it is not even the first place that should come to…
Tony Ferraro | November 12, 2015 | Gemba | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Forklift Safety, Gemba
5S Products that Work
Proven 5S Products that Work When attempting to implement or improve a 5S strategy in a facility you will undoubtedly find that there are many different products out there that claim to effectively address 5S challenges. While many of them are great, others really just don’t get the job done. Using ineffective 5S products is…
Tony Ferraro | October 27, 2015 | Product Spotlight | 5S
6S or 5S – The Great Debate
6S or 5S – Which side of the fence are you on? 6S is seen by many as the ‘next step’ in the evolution of workplace waste elimination and efficiency improvement. As with any type of change, however, there are also some people who are resistant to the idea. Those who have adopted the 5S…
Tony Ferraro | September 29, 2015 | 5S | 5S, 6S, Facility Efficiency, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Tool Organization, Workplace Safety
Kaizen Continuous Improvement – Ten Tips
Ten Tips to Help You with Your Kaizen Continuous Improvement Strategy The Kaizen methodology encourages ongoing efforts to ensure continuous improvement throughout a facility. This improvement can come in many forms including waste elimination, improved efficiency, safer work environments and much more. To simply say that a facility is employing Kaizen strategies, is essentially meaningless…
Tony Ferraro | September 21, 2015 | Kaizen | 5S, 6S, Continuous Improvement, Facility Efficiency, Kaizen, Six Sigma
Gemba Walk for Manufacturing
Introducing Gemba Walk in a Manufacturing Environment Gemba walks are becoming a very popular and effective way for facility management and other key areas to learn more about what goes on within the facility. Gemba, which simply means ‘the real place’ or ‘where the action is’ shows those who don’t normally do a specific task how…
Tony Ferraro | September 2, 2015 | Gemba | 5S, Gemba, Lean Manufacturing
Seven Simple & Effective Manufacturing Safety Tips
Manufacturing facilities are an essential part of the global economy, but they are also one of the more dangerous places of employment. While there have been significant manufacturing safety improvements over the past several decades, many facilities still have a long way to go. Unfortunately, many facilities believe that it would be too costly or…
Tony Ferraro | July 10, 2015 | Lean, Safety Solutions | 5S, Lean, Lean Manufacturing, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs, Six Sigma
5S – For Life & For Business
Have you ever heard of the 5 S’s? The five S’s stand for steps that you can use to organize various elements of your life. Originating from lean manufacturing principles, and used by businesses and assembly lines, this process can be applied to nearly any organizational task. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to look…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 6, 2015 | 5S, Value Stream | 5S, Lean Manufacturing, Organized Workplace
Lean is Green
Lean manufacturing principles have solidified themselves as a successful method of improvement in organizations across the globe. Increasing productivity through waste elimination methods continues to be the golden ticket for many industries, but a separate by-product of Lean is in need of some attention –Green. Organizations everywhere are starting to notice their Lean principles produce…
CSS Editorial Staff | December 24, 2014 | Lean | 3P, 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, Lean
Healthcare Floor Marking Policy
A Complete Healthcare Floor Marking Policy Guide One of the fastest growing trends in healthcare today is implementing efficiency standards based on Lean 5S concepts which can be done by using things such as safety wall signs and photoluminescent tape. This is important because it can benefit hospitals, doctor’s offices and other healthcare facilities to…
Tony Ferraro | November 26, 2014 | Floor Marking | 5S, Arc Flash, Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Healthcare, Organized Workplace, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs, Social Distancing
Executive Acceptance of Operational Excellence – Not Just A Pretty Rhyme
Introduction to Operational Excellence For most of us, Lean is a common concept by now. By extension, we’re also familiar with the idea of continuous improvement; the way we run our business should ultimately be reflective of a chain of efforts to change for the better and reach more perfect efficiency. That’s all well and good,…
Tony Ferraro | August 11, 2014 | Safety Solutions | 5S, Safety, Six Sigma
Foam for Tool Boxes
Exploring the Benefits of Foam for Tool Boxes Most facilities have dozens, if not hundreds, of different tools that are used on a regular basis. In addition to being very valuable, these tools are also essential for getting work done in an efficient way. When the tools are not properly taken care of, it can…
Tony Ferraro | July 8, 2014 | Safety Products | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Labeling, Lean Manufacturing, Organized Workplace, Safety, Tool Organization
5 Tips for Reducing Downtime
How to Reduce Downtime in Your Facility When managing any facility, one of the biggest problems you need to overcome is downtime. Whether it is a full work stoppage where nothing is getting done, or just one machine that isn’t working properly, downtime can cause a wide range of different problems throughout the facility. Of…
Tony Ferraro | July 2, 2014 | Lean | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Lean Manufacturing, Reducing Downtime
Top 6 Losses in OEE
OEE and Understanding the Most Common Areas of Loss Tracking your facility’s productivity is an important way to keep up to date on how efficient your business is operating, and how to make improvements. The OEE standard helps manufacturing companies keep track of how things are going, and identify where they are experiencing excessive downtime…
Tony Ferraro | June 30, 2014 | Lean | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Lockout Tagout, OEE
5S Sustain Work Instruction Examples
How To Sustain 5S Examples and Steps When conducting a 5S project, no one ever seems to really have much trouble with the first three. Sorting, setting in order, and shining are relatively straightforward and most 5S guides give aspiring Lean managers a simple step-by-step set of instructions for completing each. Then we reach standardize, and…
Tony Ferraro | June 13, 2014 | 5S | 5S
