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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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