Lean Manufacturing Update

Keeping You Informed On Lean Manufacturing

Are Some Managers Just Too Dumb To Implement Lean?

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 28, 2016

I once had a client whose business was very capital intensive.  I asked if I could get measures of machine […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Simplify and Solve – Value Stream Mapping and Team Problem Solving: Part 6

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 27, 2016

So, at this point, you have a pretty good value stream map of your current state.  I doubt if it […]

Leadership Commitment Isn’t Enough

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 20, 2016

Hey, I just got another article posted on Industry Week’s web site!  It rambles a bit, perhaps, but I’m particularly proud of […]

The Lean Farm

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 19, 2016

I just came across an article, “What Can Small Farms Learn From a Car Company?”.  The article reports, briefly, on a […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Simplify and Solve – Value Stream Mapping and Team Problem Solving: Part 5

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 13, 2016

We ended up last time with a simple map that showed, basically, where stuff gets moved, where stuff gets something […]

A Really Crummy Article About Lean

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 06, 2016

I don’t get to the Interest Groups at LinkedIn as often as I should but I browsed around there yesterday […]

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Simplify and Solve – Value Stream Mapping and Team Problem Solving: Part 4

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 05, 2016

OK, so enough talk about boxes and arrows and lets put something on paper.  We have a couple of decisions […]

Lean and ERP don’t mix…mostly

  • Rick Bohan
  • December 01, 2016

I know just enough about ERP (and MRP and MRP II) to be dangerous.  Maybe not even that much.  I […]

A Good 5S Example?

  • Rick Bohan
  • November 28, 2016

Take a look at this example of 5S.  What do you think….good example or not?  It sure looks good, doesn’t […]

Principles of Lean Video

  • Rick Bohan
  • November 22, 2016

I made a “PowerPoint video” that I posted to YouTube over a year ago.  I just posted another video on […]

Scientific Management and Crazy Relatives.

  • Rick Bohan
  • November 18, 2016

I hadn’t been to Jim Womack’s blog in awhile, so I went to check it out this morning.  Boy, did […]

Good Example of Visual Management as Strategic Advantage

  • Rick Bohan
  • November 18, 2016

This  is a PR video but check it out and catch the reference to Visual Management.