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Check Sheets

by Pete Abilla August 31, 2010
This entry is part 28 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

A Check Sheet is one of the Seven (7) Basic Quality Tools. A Check Sheet is a simple tool for data collection. In this post, I’ll show how to create and use a Check Sheet and provide some basic heuristics and common pitfalls of Check Sheet and data collection overall. A Check Sheet allows us [...]

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Your Baby is Ugly

by Pete Abilla August 30, 2010

No, we’re not talking about children or infants here. We’re talking about people who are so invested in their idea, business, and process, which results in hyper tunnel vision and they begin to believe the fantasy that their [enter "whatever" here] is the best and cannot get better. Calling that [thing] imperfect is analogous to [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 6

by Pete Abilla August 30, 2010
This entry is part 26 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 6 of 6 of the Deming Red Bead Video Tutorial. The Red Bead Experiment by Dr. W. Edwards Deming Pete Abilla www.shmula.com Product Review Aug 30, 2010 Rating: 5/5 An amazing and incredibly simple game that illustrates so many important management principles and also principles of process improvement. I promise you – [...]

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Book Review: Whaddaya Mean I Gotta Be Lean

by Pete Abilla August 29, 2010
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Book Review

Jeff Hajek, the author of “Whaddaya Mean I Gotta Be Lean”, was kind enough to send me a book to review. Overall, I thought the book was good for an audience of on-the-ground practitioners of Lean. My first impression was not to take the book too seriously, given the cute and irreverent title of the [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 5

by Pete Abilla August 28, 2010
This entry is part 25 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 5 of 6 of the Deming Red Bead Video Tutorial. The Red Bead Experiment by Dr. W. Edwards Deming Pete Abilla www.shmula.com Product Review Aug 28, 2010 Rating: 5/5 An amazing and incredibly simple game that illustrates so many important management principles and also principles of process improvement. I promise you – [...]

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Lean for Service Operations: Improving Healthcare

by Pete Abilla August 27, 2010

A good article in Businessweek illustrates the impact of Lean Thinking or, more specific, Lean Consumption or Lean for Service Operations can have on Healthcare. Here are a few items from that article worth noting: [Look for] integration opportunities: connecting adjacent but unconnected pieces of the patient experience to create small, incremental improvements. The integration [...]

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Kaizen: They Must Increase, I Must Decrease

by Pete Abilla August 26, 2010

The true spirit of Kaizen isn’t just about improving the organization, but it is also in teaching, guiding, and in effectively stretching people beyond their current capabilities. Indeed, it is in developing people and in increasing their capability to contribute and add value. Staying true to the spirit of Kaizen has a few implications on [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 4

by Pete Abilla August 26, 2010
This entry is part 23 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 4 of 6 of the Deming Red Bead Experiment Video Tutorial. But, before we get to the Red Bead Video Tutorial, here are some famous quotes of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Famous Quotes of Dr. W. Edwards Deming “Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or [...]

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Video: Toyota Lexus RX Factory, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

by Pete Abilla August 25, 2010

For those that are students of Lean Manufacturing or the Toyota Production System, but have not stepped inside a Toyota plant, this video will give you a sense of what it looks like. What you won’t see are many examples of Lean, except for a few: Minute 3:21 – You’ll see a runner, delivering a [...]

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