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Lean Lessons Began in First Grade, According to New Book from the Lean Enterprise Institute
Lean management practitioners will want to add an L for “lean” to the three Rs after reading Everything I Know about Lean I Learned in…
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New Lean Management Ebook Makes Lean Concepts Easy to Understand
Everything I Know about Lean I Learned in First Grade from the Lean Enterprise Institute is a quick and fun read for people at all…
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From Port to Plate: How Legal Sea Foods Is Improving Through Lean
Legal Sea Foods is working with LEI to help launch a movement to change everything about the way traditional restaurants work. Legal, a family business…
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Effective Supervision 101
One of the biggest challenges for lean thinkers is translating lean thinking into lean doing, writes Stan Shaw. One of the best ways of making…
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Art of Lean on Work & Waste, Part 6: Waiting
Learn how to spot what Art Smalley, president of Art of Lean, Incorporated, thinks is the most annoying form of waste.
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Forms and Templates
Downloads for A3 problem solving, standard work, project management, and value stream mapping.
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33. On the Job with Ron Kelner, President and COO of the Deublin Company
Ron describes the Deublin Company's business system built with lean thinking that puts human development at the center.
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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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Work Element
The distinct steps required to complete one cycle at a workstation; the smallest increment of work that can be moved to another operator. Breaking work…
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Back to Work
Only a month ago I wrote about going beyond Toyota. And in light of the last month's events, I suppose that must seem prescient. But…
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Diving Deep to Discover the Value of Lean Companies with Cliff Ransom
The following conversation drills down into the lessons learned from looking at public companies through lean-colored glasses.
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Acting Your Way to Horizontal Thinking
In this keynote presentation from the 2013 AME conference, James Womack, founder of the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, and Ingersoll-Rand executive Todd Wyman summarize the…
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Out-of-Cycle Work
Tasks of operators in multioperator processes which require the operator to break the pace of work or leave the area. Examples include retrieving parts from…
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