Monthly Archives: May 2017

Indirect vs. Direct Labor Accounting

Here’s a quick podcast, by my friend and colleague, Becky Morgan, about the silliness of focusing too heavily on the ratio […]

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“What is 5S?” Video

Here’s my most recent YouTube video, “What Is 5S?”  Yeah, it’s kind of DIY (I used a free screen cast […]

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Error Proofing

I haven’t written much about error proofing in my several years of blogging about lean manufacturing.  When I teach, I […]

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Operations are NOT “Cost Centers”!

One of my constant refrains is “Don’t implement lean as a cost reduction initiative.  You’ll just screw it up.”  Implementing lean […]

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