The “work cell” can be a pretty mysterious beast to anyone working outside of the Lean Six Sigma arena. But the simple fact is that most people already know how to design a work cell, whether they know it or not. It really is a matter of taking some rather common sense principles, and using [...]
The other day, I walked into my teenage son’s martial arts training academy – or “dojo” – carrying a copy of the classic book Lean Thinking in my hand. I intended to re-read a section or two while he was practicing. One of the other parents, a business person, saw the titled and politely asked, [...]
AME, The Association for Manufacturing Excellence, will be holding its 2012 Conference in Chicago, with the theme “Build on Success to Reach New Heights”. Whether you are a lean thinker, a Six Sigma proponent, or simply passionate about learning how to improve your work, join us on October 15 – 19, 2012. Learning directly from [...]
Four years ago, I asked a group of professional colleagues for their recommendations regarding the “best of the best” resources that would help me learn more about Lean. As a long-time practitioner of SCM, it is virtually impossible not to have at least a cursory knowledge of subjects like Lean, Just-in-time (JIT), and Six Sigma. [...]
Lean is not just for manufacturing anymore. The Province of Saskatchewan boasts one of the healthiest economies in Canada, and in a country that takes a great deal of pride in its ability to weather the storm of the post-2008 global financial crisis, that makes Saskatchewan just about the Best of the Best. A hallmark of [...]
Six Sigma, as all practitioners of Quality Management will know, is a wildly successful approach to driving variation out of business processes with its goal being, broadly defined, zero defects. Incorporating many of the philosophies of such quality pioneers as Shewart, Deming, Juran, Crosby, Ishikakwa, and Taguchi, the term is drawn from statistical process control [...]
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