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How Synchronizing Workflows Eliminates Waste in Development Processes

Two leaders share their secrets of effective value-stream mapping and synchronizing workflows.

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Article

Breaking Through To Flow

The other day I began a speech to a leading supplier of medical devices by congratulating them on the absolutely level demand for their products…

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Press Release

Flow, Flow, Flow! It’s the CIOs Real Job

The main responsibility of CIOs and other information technology managers is to create an environment for work to flow, according to John Shook, CEO, Lean…

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Lexicon Term

Continuous Flow

Producing and moving one item at a time (or a small and consistent batch of items) through a series of processing steps as continuously as…

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Information Flow

The movement of information on customer desires backward from the customer to the points where the information is needed to direct each operation (see illustrations…

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Flow Production

The production system Henry Ford introduced at his Highland Park, Michigan, plant in 1913. The objective of flow production was to drastically reduce product throughput…

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Material Flow

The movement of physical items through the entire value stream. In mass production, products travel to centralized processes in large batches, pushed forward on the…

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Article

Synchronizing Workflows

LEI's lean product and process development coaches share the fourth of several guiding principles that will help you improve the success of your organization's new…

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Video

Lean concepts that help you eliminate waste and create flow in your own work

Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member Dan Markovitz, an expert on improving personal performance, explains how the lean principles of 5S and visual management make you…

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News

John Shook's Comments on One-Piece Flow Appear in Forbes

John Shook, Lean Enterprise Institute chairman and CEO, is quoted in a June 2014 Forbes article about the advantages of continuous flow for US manufacturing.

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How One-Piece-Flow Supports Quality

Manufacturing Engineering,published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, picks up a Lean Post article by Art Byrne, who as CEO led the lean transformation at…

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