Monthly Archives: February 2015

Lean Manufacturing ROI

Lean manufacturing methods always lead to lower costs.  But figuring out how much lower can be a challenge. Lean manufacturing […]

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Talan Products Gets Bigger

One of my first “top to bottom, front to back lean initiative” clients was Talan Products here in Cleveland. Looks […]

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Good Examples of 5S

I’m putting together a workshop in Workplace Organization and Visual Factory (aka 5S….but I’m not crazy about the term 5S […]

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Book Review: Blackett’s War

Maybe some of you have seen the recent movie The Imitation Game.  The movie focuses primarily on the life of Alan […]

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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Strategy and Spread the Word: Part 2

In the earlier post, we talked about the Strategy part of the first phase.  Now, let’s talk about the Spread […]

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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Strategy and Spread the Word – Part 1

So, let’s get down to the business of actually implementing lean manufacturing. Step number one: do some planning (Strategy), then […]

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Don’t Make These Three 5S Mistakes

I’ve noticed that I get a lot of hits whenever I post about 5S.  (“Lot of hits” being relative when […]

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