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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.

Overthinking: Are You Guilty of Missing the Mark?

by Pete Abilla on March 20, 2012

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I was in a conversation the other day with a colleague where Design of Experiments (DOE) came up. During our discussion, we talked about the factors involved, controllable and uncontrollable variables, the number of levels or settings in the experiment, and the various [...]

Visual Management: What’s In It For Me?

by Pete Abilla on March 19, 2012

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Answering the question “What’s In It For Me” (also known by its acronym WIIFM, pronounced “WE-FEM”) is a common change management strategy. Often times the approach is to demonstrate how one method or another is important and how the application of that method [...]

Frequent Quality Checks

by Pete Abilla on March 15, 2012

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We’re pleased to have Gary Netherton share with us his thoughts on quality control and quality audits. He takes a common sense approach, which I advocate, and stears away from any dogma or rigid approach, which some organizations blindly follow. Read more about [...]

Taxes Online: Tax Audit Risk Visual Management

by Pete Abilla on March 14, 2012

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Every year about this time in the United States, people scramble to get their taxes done. I’m no exception. But thankfully, with the help of tax professionals and Turbotax, there is plenty of help to decode and understand the convoluted tax laws that we have [...]

No Organizational Purpose: Lean for the Sake of Lean

by Pete Abilla on March 1, 2012

when lean deployments or tranformations are misguided

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn There’s a story shared among lean practitioners that illustrates the dogmatic approach to lean manufacturing that, in part, has given lean the perception that it is detached from anything important to the organization. In other words, when a Lean Transformation doesn’t align to [...]