One Piece Flow Manufacturing and Production Video
Ron Pereira over at the LSSAcademy.com offered a really cool video that pits regular mass production vs. one piece flow, and his simulation produced a time savings with the one piece flow. In his video, what I found to be as interesting as his presented material were the comments at the bottom by professionals in…
Mike Wilson | September 25, 2012 | Lean | Continuous Improvement, Lean
What’s In It For YOU To Go Lean?
Jon Wetzel, at the Lean for Everyone blog gives some ideas on how to get everybody interested in implementing lean into their workplace by making it affecting them personally. “WIIFM” or “What’s In It For Me” is the basis for much of what people do both consciously and subconsciously. As lean trainers we need to…
Mike Wilson | September 11, 2012 | Lean | Continuous Improvement, Lean, Lean Manufacturing
Respect for People and Continuous Improvement = Lean
On Joe Dager’s Lean-based website, Business901.com, he and David Veech of The Lean Way produced a podcast in which they conversed about the two “over-arching drivers” that should be inherent in any successful lean implementation: respect for people and continuous improvement. In the podcast, Veech makes the point that the technicality of continuous improvement and…
Mike Wilson | September 7, 2012 | Lean | Lean, Lean Manufacturing
Deming’s Contribution to Japan and Continual Improvement
W. Edwards Deming (photo courtesy of Wikipedia) I was reading Mark Graban’s Lean Blog today, and he mentioned the importance of W. Edwards Deming’s work with the Japanese. The idea of continual improvement was not Deming’s invention, but he certainly became one of the symbols of it, first to many Japanese manufacturers, and then later,…
Mike Wilson | August 22, 2012 | Lean | Continuous Improvement, Lean