Lean Fun

Seeing Beyond The Glass – The Lean Thinker’s View 0
- Lean Fun
- July 11, 2018
Nine years ago I posted the question Is the glass half full or half empty? Since that time I’ve seen many bloggers post about this very question. I wanted to revisit this again. Is the glass half full of half empty? The optimists will likely say it is half full and the pessimists it is half empty.
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5S – Twas the Night Before Christmas!0
- 5S, Lean Fun
- December 28, 2016
Merry Christmas ! I thought it would be great to share this fun poem with all of you. Anonymous, 2012 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the plantMachines were not running; production was scant.We’d been forced to shut down and were incurring large fees,Cause one of the workers dropped a wrench in line
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Merry Christmas – The Neverending Christmas Card Factory 0
- Exercises/Games, Lean Fun
- December 26, 2016
I know Christmas is over but there is still something to learn from making Christmas cards. The following video explains Lean thinking principles from kids making cards for their families. Now this video is not too different than many others that explain the difference between the traditional push and a better pull manufacturing process. But
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“Everybody Get Lean” – Learn From Mistakes and Miss-Steps!0
- L.A.M.E., Lean Fun
- October 14, 2013
Riley Sweeney, from Uttana,a Lean training video company sent me a video of great comedic webseries “Everybody Get Lean.” The series is a work place comedy about lean programs and everything that can go wrong when people go overboard. They shot a total of four episodes, though only the first one has been released. If
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So God Created a Quality Manager 0
- Lean Fun, Quality
- April 1, 2013
Quality Digest created a video honoring the role of the quality manager in today’s organizations, based on Paul Harvey’s timeless tribute to the farmer, which debuted at the 2013 Super Bowl. Mike Micklewright and Quality Digest present this homage to quality managers: Those hard-working, often-overlooked gatekeepers of continuous improvement. Told in the style of the
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Lean Gone Lego Red Trolley Factory Worker Interviews 0
- Lean Fun
- August 23, 2012
My friends at The Gordon, an online training company, have created another series of Lean Lego videos. The Gordon is Victoria’s largest regional stand-alone TAFE and one of Australia’s original and leading education and training providers — established in the heart of Geelong in 1887. This project aims to empower workers to continuously come up
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