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Articles on Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, and The Toyota Production System

The Toyota Production System, or Lean Manufacturing as it has come to be called, is the production system developed by Toyota to identify and eliminate waste. It’s pillars are Continuous Improvement and Respect for People. It’s methodology includes both a worldview and tools to make work better through the systematic elimination of waste and a thorough approach to developing people.

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn 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 [...]

Blendtec: Genchi Genbutsu and Visual Management

by Pete Abilla on August 18, 2010

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We went to Costco last weekend and there was a demonstration for Blendtec Blender – you know, those Blendtec “Will it Blend” viral videos on YouTube with that white-coat crazy scientist Blendtec founder blending everything from brooms to the iPhone. As a side-note: [...]

The Lean Startup, Video Interview, Eric Ries, Part 2

by Pete Abilla on August 17, 2010

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn This is Eric Ries, explaining The Lean Startup – this is part 2. You can see Eric Ries Lean Startup Video Interview Part 1 here. In other words, how to apply Lean Thinking to entrepreneurship and to building products and launching companies that [...]

The Lean Startup, Video Interview, Eric Ries, Part 1

by Pete Abilla on August 15, 2010

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn The principles of Lean have been applied to many areas outside of manufacturing – from lean for healthcare, lean for service operations, lean in education, and even lean for entrepreneurship. Lean for Entrepreneurship is also known as the Lean Startup. What is Leanstartup [...]

reCAPTCHA: A Problem, A Solution, an Innovation

by Pete Abilla on August 13, 2010

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn reCAPTCHA is one of the most innovative ideas that I’ve ever come across. What is fascinating is that reCAPTCHA solves a real human problem in such a simple an innovative way. To some degree, Luis Von Ahn, the inventor of reCAPTCHA, followed the [...]



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