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Elimination of Muda is the Key to Efficiency

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  Muda means waste and refers to a wide range of non-value-adding activities; eliminating waste is the key to efficiency. When you look at the Toyota Production System (TPS), eliminating Muda waste is one of the main principles of the Just-in-Time system. Some things that are considered waste are unnecessary financing costs, storage costs and worthless stock […]

[VIDEO] Vintage Honda Factory Tour

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Take a step back in time with a vintage Honda factory tour! Since 1959, Honda has been setting records. They are the largest manufacturers of motorcycles and internal combustion engines in the world. In 2001, they became the second largest Japanese auto manufacturer. Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft, power generators, and other […]

Kaizen Events and Their Application in Government Agencies

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Kaizen refers to the general idea of improving business processes, and while there are many ways to go about this in the work of a modern government agency, understanding the principles behind Kaizen events and how they relate to the improvement process is a crucial aspect of the overall ordeal. Some leaders tend to face […]

How Event-Based Process Improvement Methods Drive Change

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An event-based approach to process improvement can be a great driving force for change in an organization. It’s easy to see exactly which parts of the process need to be altered and in what ways when looking at the situation from an event-based perspective, and this can often open up the doors to some interesting […]

[VIDEO] Building Strength With Key Performance Indicators

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can shape strategy and fact-based decision making inside businesses, only if those inside the organization act on them.  It doesn’t matter how brilliantly you’ve aligned your KPIs to your strategy, or even how brilliantly you have captured and presented the relevant KPIs, if they aren’t used as they were intended. If […]

Key Performance Indicators Can Predict an Impending Storm

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Key performance indicators (KPIs) are among the most common tools used in business to help manage more effectively and guide the progress of the organization. They provide clarity to murky issues and put the spotlight on potential opportunities. Key performance indicators can help an organization predicate an impending storm and avoid potential downfalls. Leaders often […]

[VIDEO] Kanban Board Creates Opportunities

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Kanban is a lean method to manage and improve systems and process across an organization. The methodology balances the demands with available capacity, and improves the handling of system level bottlenecks. The Kanban board is a tool within the methodology which will allow the visualization of any process. The goal of a Kanban system is […]

3 Ways Lean Six Sigma Can Reduce Absenteeism

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Worker absenteeism is a problem that causes countless managers and business owners headaches as they try to figure out how to run their businesses effectively without all hands on deck. Employees are also affected as well, as someone will have to pick up the slack due to the absence of a coworker. Besides this, absenteeism […]

5 Benefits of One-Piece Flow

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    Among the key methods that organizations today use to set up a lean environment is to implement one-piece flow. In one-piece flow, production of a particular item is moved from one stage of production to the next one piece after the other. This is in contrast to other models of production which have […]

Breaking Down Resource Efficiency vs Flow Efficiency

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Thanks to its success, many businesses today are considering working under the Agile philosophy, which stresses the value of process efficiency. However, they face a major stumbling block: the choice between resource efficiency and flow efficiency. This dilemma can be chalked down to how they see the system of work. Analyzing Resource Efficiency vs Flow […]