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• Management Webcast: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 413
  Webcast introduction to lean manufacturing by Ron Pereira. This is a great 9 minute introduction to the topic, for those not familiar with lean thinking . It sets the context for lean thinking and provides some history on how lean manufacturing has developed. Get videos on learning about lean from the Gemba ...
  2 days ago

• The Best Sources of Information About the Toyota Production System

  
  Lean Insider — Authority: 120
  A question posted recently on LinkedIn asked about sources of information regarding the Toyota Production System. I was pleased to see 20 responses to the question, with the recommendations including several books we publish. The Productivity Press books suggested include Toyota ...
  2 weeks ago

• business owners, make the most of what youve got

  
  8 hours & a lunch — Authority: 124
  If you’re smart and good at what you do, you know that it’s not necessary to grow to be more profitable or to get more done.  It’s about making the most of what you’ve got. Interestingly, Sonia Simone just sent out an email newsletter today in which she says, “Those perfect Martha-Stewart ...
  3 weeks ago

• are you a fire-fighter? (or a problem solver?)

  
  8 hours & a lunch — Authority: 124
  Jonathan Fields recently shared that while speaking with a COO of a public company , that COO had identified one single quality that makes someone “ precious and indispensable .”  That quality?  He initially called it “ the ability to create ” but as he went on to describe more fully what he meant, it was ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Seven Wastes

  
  Lone Gunman — Authority: 515
  One of the principal goals of the  Toyota Production System (TPS) is to identify steps that add value (and those which do not) and then design out waste. Muda is one of the three types of waste (the other two being muri and mura ) and the one that has been given the most attention since the TPS has been ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lean Manufacturing from Design to Assembly

  
  learnsigma — Authority: 122
  Setpoint talks about taking an idea from a concept through design and assembly of a machine. Following lean tenets ideas should be investigated for solutions, then concepts drawn on a white board before being built into CAD Software. Related Reading: Toyota production system: Practical approach to production ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gemba Academy releases video series showing live changeover - reduction of 66%

  
  Information-Online - The first choice for business news and press releases — Authority: 508
  – Mukilteo, WA -- Lean manufacturing is helping companies worldwide reduce operating costs, improve quality and contribute to profitable growth. Online learning is increasingly becoming an important way for people to gain practical knowledge on implementing lean manufacturing. Gemba Academy LLC, the leader in ...
  3 weeks ago

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