March 2017 - Page 2 of 2

Lean Quote: Spend Time on Root Cause Analysis 0
- Lean Quote
- March 17, 2017
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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The Consequences of Not Doing Jidoka 0
- Lean Basics
- March 15, 2017
Jidoka is very popular with the product quality inspectors, who check items at the end of the production process. That’s because Jidoka ensures that a defect is identified and corrected immediately and not at the end of the process. This, therefore, reduces the pressure on a process engineers relying on final inspection. So what happens
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Improve Quality Control with Intelligence (Jidoka)0
- Lean Basics
- March 13, 2017
Courtesy of Lean.org There is no room for compromise in Lean when it comes to quality. Jidoka incorporates quality checks into every step of the production process by providing machines and operators the ability to detect when an abnormal condition has occurred and immediately stop work. This enables operations to build in quality at each
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Lean Quote: Enjoyment Should Always Be The Goal 0
- Lean Quote
- March 10, 2017
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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The Missing M & M 0
- Lean Basics
- March 8, 2017
In today’s economy many companies are looking for cost savings. Eliminating muda (waste) is the focus of most lean manufacturing efforts. But two other M’s are just as important to making lean work. In fact, focusing on only the eight wastes of muda can actually hamper productivity. Lean is about the elimination of muda, muri,
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Yokoten, Best Practice Sharing Across Everywhere 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- March 6, 2017
Yokoten is a Japanese term that can be roughly translated as “across everywhere.” In the Japanese lean system, it is used to mean “best practice sharing.” Yokoten, the term Toyota adopted to capture the idea of horizontal transfer of information and knowledge across an organization. Yokoten encourages sharing of data across the organization. To Yokoten
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