In my experience in manufacturing and continuous improvement, there are two tools that the engineer needs to lean on heavily. Just two processes they should master and continually practice, because these two tools will make all the difference. It might seem unfair when you consider the whole workbench of Lean and Six Sigma, especially whenContinue reading “Two Critical Tools”
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Killer Kaizen
Folks may not be clear on Kaizen. If you read the original books that came here from Japan trying to explain to the West what ‘magic’ Japan has been using to beat the Big 3 (this was a while ago, so you are forgiven if this doesn’t ring a bell) you will not find instructionsContinue reading “Killer Kaizen”
1st S – Sort (Seiri)
In any productive workspace there are four types of things – the things used to create your product (inventory), the things needed to convert the inventory into product (tools), the furnishings and tables and shelves to hold the first and second types of things, and everything else. It is the last category, “everything else”, that we are here to discuss.
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