Lean Manufacturing Update

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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Straighten and See (5S) – Part 1

Rick Bohan
August 04, 2015

You’ve finished with the Sort and Shine across your plant (or nearly so). You’ve been working for awhile and the […]

One in Fifty

Rick Bohan
July 21, 2015

That’s how many companies that start a lean initiative will seen any positive results from it, according to a survey conducted […]

Lean Cuisine gets Lean

Rick Bohan
July 17, 2015

I was just reading an article in Bloomberg Businessweek (Nestle Tries a Different Recipe For Lean Cuisine…it doesn’t seem to […]

Lean Jargon

Rick Bohan
July 16, 2015

I was just listening to NPR and Alan Alda was on The Dianne Rheam Show. He was talking about his […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Sort and Shine (5S): Part 5

Rick Bohan
June 30, 2015

We left off at Implementation Schedules and Red Tag areas. So, by now, your teams should be regularly stopping their […]

A Good Lean Case Study….Sort of

Rick Bohan
June 14, 2015

I found this article (Case Study: VIBCO’s Lean Transformation Journey) while scouring around for lean blogs to recommend. I was actually […]

One of Our Problems in Promoting Lean is that the Press Misrepresents Lean

Rick Bohan
June 13, 2015

I’ve spoken and written fairly often about my insistence that lean isn’t about cost-cutting. In fact, a focus solely on cost cutting […]

Video on Kanban in Healthcare that You Need to See

Rick Bohan
June 12, 2015

My experience is that good definitions, descriptions, and case studies of effective kanban are hard to come by. It’s the […]

DMAIC

Rick Bohan
June 09, 2015

I’ve been developing materials for a series of client workshops on DMAIC. (It’s an acronym that stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, […]

Another Not-So-Value-Added Article

Rick Bohan
May 18, 2015

A few weeks ago, I linked to an article that was…well, just bad. Today’s not-so-value-added article isn’t as bad. In fact, there’s, […]

The Best Stuff I’ve Read Lately

Rick Bohan
May 15, 2015

1. Time Management Training Doesn’t Work Actually, according to the article, it does. The basics of time management are the […]

A 5S Primer

Rick Bohan
May 11, 2015

I found this article, 5S Study and Research Page, via another blog, Beyond Lean. It’s worth a look because it covers a lot […]