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How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Sort and Shine (5S): Part 4

  • Rick Bohan
  • May 09, 2015

SORT AND SHINE IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE We’re going to talk later on about the Sort and Shine Sustain Schedule.  That will […]

Visual Factory

  • Rick Bohan
  • May 06, 2015

I don’t run across good articles on Visual Factory very often (other than here in my own blog)but here’s one […]

How To Use Lean Teams

  • Rick Bohan
  • May 05, 2015

Last week, I conducted a workshop for a past client for one of its lean teams.  The work reminded me […]

Change Management 101

  • Rick Bohan
  • May 01, 2015

I was just reading a blog post over at Beyond Lean that asks, “What do you do when change is needed […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Sort and Shine (5S): Part 3

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 27, 2015

SORT AND SHINE TEAMS Each area will have a team associated with it that will be responsible for actually carrying […]

Lean Manufacturing Implementation and Rubik’s Cube

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 19, 2015

My friends over at Wire-Net, here in northeast Ohio, recently posted an interesting article (The Rubik’s Cube Correlation) on their blog. […]

Value Stream Maps and Battle Plans – Are They Worth Nothing?

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 16, 2015

Speaking of YouTube videos (which I was a week or so ago), I found a good one at The Lean […]

The Best Lean Tool

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 14, 2015

If you had to choose just one lean method as the best lean tool, what would it be?  Yeah, that’s […]

My First YouTube Video! “What is Lean Manufacturing?”

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 08, 2015

I’ve always wanted to spread out into posting YouTube videos but was never quite sure how to go about it. […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Sort and Shine (5S): Part 2

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 07, 2015

We’re on a roll regarding rolling out 5S that should go a couple of more posts.  In our last post, […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Sort and Shine (5S): Part 1

  • Rick Bohan
  • April 02, 2015

In my next several posts, I’m going to be talking about good ol’ 5S. I did a keyword search this […]

In Other Words…Off-Shoring Was Carried Out by Dumb Managers

  • Rick Bohan
  • March 31, 2015

Here’s an interesting paragraph I ran across in my recent reading ramblings: “For instance, it was assumed that assembly labor […]