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You Can Count On It
You Can Count On It.... These are words we absolutely want to hear both in our everyday personal life and as well as in our professional life. Anytime there is an issue or something to be...
Key Figures in the History of Lean
8 Heroes of Lean Manufacturing Many people have heard of the term Lean or Lean Manufacturing. But most people do not know the history behind Lean. The philosophy, as we know it today, has...
Lean Supply Chain
There are countless articles, blogs, white papers, presentations, websites, consultants and professionals telling the story about the benefits of Lean for your organizations operations. They all have...
Purchase Price vs Total Cost Of Ownership
I have written in the past regarding methods and discussions regarding how to optimize your supply chain. I'd like to take the discussion deeper into one particular area and make an offer I believe...
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Speed versus Throughput
Remember the movie Speed from 1994? One of the more quoted lines from that movie was something like this – “Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb...
Stealing Shamelessly
One of the key concepts I learned very early on in my Lean training over 25 years ago was the idea of stealing shamelessly. Before any one gets the idea I learned and support an all-out theft of...
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The Three Legged Stool of Data
The Three Legged Stool of Data Ever try to sit on a one or two-legged stool? What happens? It will fall over and not support you or do its job of supporting you or your objectives. The same thing...
Earning the Right
Space Problem or Stuff Problem? I visited three facilities recently and in these plants the operations leaders were concerned they did not have enough space. I toured each respective facility with...
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Help me, my hands are tied!
We frequently call on clients in Kansas who are part of larger organizations with headquarters or corporate offices located in another state. The local contacts say they would like to work with us,...
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Does your organization support a culture of insanity?
What is the definition of insanity, at least from business perspective? It is doing the same things repeatedly, expecting different results. Many organizations on a Lean journey believe they can...
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