Brainstorming with a Team
- Rick Bohan
- July 07, 2016
I’ve found that, perhaps, the most useful tool for teams isn’t used that much: good ol’ brainstorming. I’m not sure […]
Bad Problem Solving + Dysfunctional Company = Assured Failure: Part One
- Rick Bohan
- June 30, 2016
Industry Week has a series of articles that you should read: Lean and Continuous Improvement: Twelve in 12. I haven’t read […]
How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Straighten and See (5S) – Part 6
- Rick Bohan
- April 21, 2016
The last element of Straighten and See assures that information about the work that is to take place at each […]
How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Straighten and See (5S) – Part 5
- Rick Bohan
- April 18, 2016
We’ve been talking about implementing Straighten and See and, in our last post, we listed three elements: Establishing a marked […]
How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Straighten and See (5S) – Part 4
- Rick Bohan
- November 11, 2015
In our last “how to implement lean” post, I said we’d look at the following three elements of Straighten and […]
No Trust, No Quality
- Rick Bohan
- November 11, 2015
In a recent article on the Lean Enterprise website (“Why Are There So Many Opinions About What Lean Is and Isn’t” […]
Lean Metrics…again
- Rick Bohan
- September 28, 2015
I think I’ve mentioned any number of times that I always start with selecting a set of metrics whenever I […]
Blue Bell Creamery: The Antithesis of Lean
- Rick Bohan
- September 14, 2015
Next time you hear someone say or imply that lean is about cost cutting, show them this article: “Former Blue […]
Lean and Consistency
- Rick Bohan
- September 09, 2015
I was just reading an article on the Industry Week website, “Do’s and Don’t’s for a Lean Initiative Implementation”. One […]
How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Straighten and See (5S) – Part 3
- Rick Bohan
- August 27, 2015
In our last post, we took a few moments to talk about the why of Visual Factory (Straighten and See). Let’s get […]
How to Implement Lean Manufacturing: Straighten and See (5S) – Part 2
- Rick Bohan
- August 18, 2015
We’re in the third phase of implementing a lean manufacturing initiative, Straigthen and See. Last time, we went over the […]
Does Lean Actually Help?
- Rick Bohan
- August 13, 2015
I was at a client yesterday whose managers had recently attended a lean seminar that had left them unsatisfied. During […]
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