Back to the Future…
- Rick Bohan
- December 31, 2014
I used to have this blog on the regular Godaddy blog software. They bagged the blogging business, pretty much leaving […]
Lean Measures
- Rick Bohan
- December 17, 2014
I was on a sales call a couple of days ago and was reminded, yet again, of the importance of […]
Lean Manufacturing Principles: The System is Perfectly Designed to Get the Results it Gets
- Rick Bohan
- December 12, 2014
I used to work for a large steel producer. It happens that the large steel producer would lose coils of […]
Lunch Room Lean
- Rick Bohan
- December 12, 2014
One of the fun parts about lean consulting (as compared with implementing lean for a single employer) is that I […]
What the heck is a “standard rate” and what’s it good for?
- Rick Bohan
- August 04, 2014
I got into one of those not infrequent “lean discussions” recently that focused on “standards”. Now, the first thing that […]
Lean Manufacturing Principles: Consistent is Better than Fast
- Rick Bohan
- July 31, 2014
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, manufacturers have had a devotion to, not to say an obsession with, efficiency […]
Lean Manufacturing Principles: No “Manufacturing Heroics”
- Rick Bohan
- July 30, 2014
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be going over what I consider to be some of the fundamental […]
Agile Manufacturing Update…Starting Over
- Rick Bohan
- July 28, 2014
If you’ve been here before, you might be surprised about the “starting over” phrase. As I’ve mentioned, GoDaddy quit offering […]
Value of Value Stream Maps: Take Two
- Rick Bohan
- July 25, 2014
A few days ago, I wrote about the use (or non-use) of value stream maps and, upon re-reading that post, […]
The Value of Value Stream Mapping
- Rick Bohan
- July 15, 2014
A number of places I’ve been to have a value stream map hanging somewhere already. Often the map has been […]
What the hell? Where am I? And what did they do with Agile Manufacturing Update?
- Rick Bohan
- June 30, 2014
That’s what you’re thinking, right? Well, here’s the quick story: GoDaddy, the host of the blog, got out of the […]
Agile Manufacturing Update is all new!
- Rick Bohan
- June 25, 2014
OK, Godaddy got out of the business of hosting blogs, so I’ve got this WordPress site now. It’ll take a […]