Error Proofing
- Rick Bohan
- May 20, 2017
I haven’t written much about error proofing in my several years of blogging about lean manufacturing. When I teach, I […]
Operations are NOT “Cost Centers”!
- Rick Bohan
- May 18, 2017
One of my constant refrains is “Don’t implement lean as a cost reduction initiative. You’ll just screw it up.” Implementing lean […]
Teams Should Conduct Their Own 5S Audits: Part Two
- Rick Bohan
- April 11, 2017
In our last post, we talked a bit about 5S audits and argued that teams of operators should self-audit their […]
Teams Should Conduct Their Own 5S Audits: Part One
- Rick Bohan
- March 27, 2017
We all know that an important part of sustaining 5S is auditing or assessing the status of 5S at any […]
New Industry Week Article
- Rick Bohan
- March 22, 2017
I just got another article posted on Industry Week’s website. Here it is: Your Employees Can and Should Build a […]
Lean Methods Could Have Prevented Historic Mistake at the Oscars
- Rick Bohan
- February 27, 2017
OK, so apparently a big mistake was made at the Oscars last night…a really, really big mistake. The wrong film […]
What Lean Is For
- Rick Bohan
- February 22, 2017
OK, first I want you to watch ten seconds of this video. Go to the :20 mark and watch to […]
New Video from FastCap
- Rick Bohan
- February 17, 2017
One of my favorite lean videos was produced and put on YouTube a couple of years ago by a company in […]
Lean Is Often All About the Smallest Things
- Rick Bohan
- February 10, 2017
I always start any project with a few days of information gathering about the operations so that I’ll know a […]
Another Misinformed Article On Lean Manufacturing
- Rick Bohan
- January 18, 2017
I’ve said any number of times that one of the problems with lean is alleged “experts” who say stuff that just […]
The Lean Farm Follow-Up
- Rick Bohan
- January 09, 2017
A few posts ago, I mentioned I was reading (or was about to read) a book I’d come across, The […]
Measuring Activity vs. Measuring Performance
- Rick Bohan
- January 06, 2017
I like to read the comments under articles that I read online. I was just checking comments under this very […]
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