Lean in Practice

Teaching Kids Standard Work in Our Schools 0
- Lean in Practice, Visual Factory
- June 2, 2011
I am not sure how many of you have elementary age kids but I have 3 lovely kids that age. Every time I visit their classrooms I notice all the visuals. They use visuals throughout their learning process. Whether it is learning the alphabet, weather, time, dates, reading or whatever else the topic it is
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Lean at Home: My Visual Schedule 0
- Lean in Practice, Visual Factory
- May 16, 2011
I am often asked if I practice Lean at home. In my experience true Lean practitioners don’t separate home and work. They can’t shut it off. They are trained to find waste and put countermeasures in place to improve the situation. I am continually teaching my family about Lean so we can make things easier and better. I
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Lean Meetings: A Better Way 0
- Lean in Practice, Lean Office
- April 19, 2011
Have you been to a meeting lately that seemed to take forever, drifted off the original objectives and agenda, and left you none the wiser of what was really achieved? By applying Lean thinking you will never have to have that experience again. Lean meetings give Structure, visibility and with a little discipline have the ability
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The Speed of Improvement 0
- Lean in Practice
- March 29, 2011
In an earlier post I talked about “The Lean Way to Tie Your Shoes” which illustrates the fastest method to tie your shoe. This post highlighted a number of lean lessons for everyone. A similar cleaver video also demonstrates a number of lean lessons. Before you look at the video let’s examine those lessons: 1. Recognition of time
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The Card Factory Video – Teaching our Youth 0
- Lean in Practice
- February 15, 2011
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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Lean Lessons from a Snowstorm 0
- Lean in Practice
- January 31, 2011
In the northeastern part of the US we have received some record snow falls in the last few weeks. All this snow got me thinking on the way home that there are some lean lessons we can take away from these snowstorms. Forecasts are inaccurate. You can only count on actual demand. We have all
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