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January 19, 2021
Some years back I conducted a Lean Office Simulation workshop for the staff of the business school at an independent urban university in the Chicago area. […]
January 10, 2021
The project management department of one of our manufacturing clients had been working on lean improvements for about 14 months and had implemented a visual accountability […]
January 1, 2021
My own experience provides several examples of the ineffectiveness of traditional process improvement approaches. Long before I was a Lean disciple I worked as a Director […]
November 18, 2020
A $250 million machinery manufacturer contacted us about improving their billing services department. The turnaround time on handling customer disputes was just too long and the […]
October 23, 2020
I had the opportunity to work with a wire drawing manufacturer where the machine operators were tasked with producing defined lot quantities to replenish parts for […]
October 13, 2020
I had the opportunity to work with some plant maintenance people in a subsidiary of a large flexible packaging manufacturer. The focus was on the bagmaking […]
October 6, 2020
A metal working plant had been transitioning to Lean production for 3 years. With Lean manufacturing working smoothly, the plant decided to focus on Lean management. […]
September 27, 2020
An engineering group was responsible for issuing the safety certification for products submitted by their customers. There were many customer complaints about the length of time […]
August 17, 2020
There are many reasons for mapping your processes. In this post we’d like to talk about what we use process maps for. A basic process map […]
August 11, 2020
There are so many advantages to mapping your work processes. One of the most powerful benefits of mapping your work processes can lead to: a shared […]
