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A Philanthropic 'Lean Internship' Experiment Yields Unexpected Question About Purpose
To understand what could work in a hands-on, gemba-based lean learning experience, the LEI's JPW Fund did what lean practitioners do — they ran a…
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Are You Organized for Leadership?
LEI President Josh Howell reflect on a recent learning tour to Toyota and GE Appliances, sharing insights the group gathered about lean transformation.
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Operations IS Your Customer
Discover how redefining operations as the primary customer of engineering can transform product development, enhance collaboration, and drive unprecedented improvements in quality and efficiency.
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Podcast
Avoiding Lean 'Flatlining': A Podcast with Mark Deluzio, Art Byrne, and Jim Womack
Mark Deluzio, lean consultant, practitioner, and author of Flatlined, discusses enduring challenges with Art Byrne and Jim Womack on this WLEI podcast.
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Lexicon Term
Heijunka Box
A tool used to level the mix and volume of production by distributing kanban within a facility at fixed intervals. Also called a leveling box.…
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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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Just-in-Time Production
Just-in-time is system of production that makes and delivers just what is needed, just when it is needed, and just in the amount needed. JIT…
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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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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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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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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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Podcast
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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Forms and Templates
Downloads for A3 problem solving, standard work, project management, and value stream mapping.
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