Want Results? 10 Continuous Improvement Strategies that Work!
Continuous improvement is the task of frequently seeking out ways to improve processes, products, or services. However, when it comes to the ongoing and ever-changing task of continuous improvement, it is important to remember that persistence and perseverance are vital. For instance, when cell phones first came out they were oversized, bulky, offered less than…
Mike Wilson | April 17, 2013 | Safety Solutions | 5S, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, Kanban, Lean Manufacturing, Organized Workplace, Six Sigma, Tool Organization
Colored Tape
Colored tapes are an important feature in most industrial workplaces. In fact, tapes are an important part of any safety program in a factory or workshop. Can you imagine how such places would be without a standard of maintaining safety and order? It would be chaos everywhere, with people and machines moving about randomly without…
Mike Wilson | February 13, 2013 | Safety Products | Organized Workplace, OSHA, Safety
How to introduce 5S concept in the work environment?
As a concept, 5S is intended to produce the best results in any given work environment. This includes things like productivity and wasted time, the happiness and safety of employees, and of course the overall profitability of your business. The S’s themselves stand for sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain. Unfortunately, 5S and…
Mike Wilson | November 15, 2012 | 5S | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Labeling, Lean Manufacturing, Organized Workplace, Tool Organization
Foam Tool Organizer and Its Accountability in the Work Place
Every workshop has an inventory where records of all tools purchased are recorded. A look through the inventory indicates that most of the small tools and implements are usually recorded missing, broken or damaged beyond repair. While these may seem like negligible losses an accumulation in a number of years results into huge amounts that…
Mike Wilson | August 30, 2012 | Safety Products | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Lean Manufacturing, Organized Workplace, Tool Organization
Continual Improvement and Lean Begins At Home
On the Lean Journey blog, author Tim McMahon talks about how he found a great video by woodworker and continual improvement maven, Paul Akers’s most recent addition to helping us to increase our efficiency and decrease our downtime with his newest video, in which he organizes a ‘junk drawer,” and shows how easy adding some…
Mike Wilson | August 23, 2012 | Lean | Continuous Improvement, Organized Workplace, Tool Organization
5S Principles
It is always good to refresh your memory with the basics of any methodology. The 5s methodology is composed of Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. Bogart McGraw in his article Introduction to 5S System, Fundamentals Explained explains that even though the system dates back to the Japan of the 1500s, it was…
Mike Wilson | July 12, 2012 | 5S | 5S, Organized Workplace
