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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.

Floor Marking: Muda, Kaizen, or Kanban?

by Pete Abilla on February 21, 2012

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We’re pleased to have Cliff Lowe as a guest blogger today and for him to share his thoughts with us on what many of us take for granted: floor visual management and the importance of that type of communication design for lean manufacturing. [...]

Legislating The Toyota Production System: Making the Application of Lean the Law

by Pete Abilla on January 26, 2012

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Bypassing any expected change management effort or cultural transformation, nothing gets a group of employees moving than an executive order. That’s exactly what the Governor of the State of Washington did – has executed an executive order for government employees to apply Lean [...]

Kaizen at AOL

by Pete Abilla on January 16, 2012

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We, lean folks, sometimes develop a narrow worldview that lean is just for manufacturing. While we know that lean is being applied to many different industries, we are sometimes surprised to hear of companies applying lean, especially if they are unconventional companies we [...]

Kaizen in Everyday Life

by Pete Abilla on January 12, 2012

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn This article is a guest post from Noeradji Prabowo, a continuous improvement practitioner in Indonesia. In this article, he shares a simple and effective application of Kaizen and the Kaizen frame of mind to a common activity in business meetings: drinking coffee. Learn [...]

Supply Chain Sustainability and the Scorecard

by Pete Abilla on January 10, 2012

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Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn This post is sponsored by the University of San Francisco’s Supply Chain program. Learn more about the program and their focus on sustainability at the end of the post. Don’t Let Suppliers Rack up Bogeys on Your Sustainability Scorecard A sustainability scorecard is [...]