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There is a "newer" six sigma blog in the blogging world that is an excellent site for news and information on our improvement jour...

The Paradigm Network of Central Indiana had the privilege of hosting a Training Within Industry (TWI) presentation by Jim Huntzinger at our ...

I recently attended the project presentations by my latest group of six sigma green belt candidates. Their reports were all well prepared ...

Hi, my name is Mike and it has been 5,840 days since I was a concrete head. My initial introduction to kaizen was the 5 day kaizen even...

I created a treasure hunt for my daughter's birthday party a few years ago. With a small army of first graders running around our yard ...

I just read a new blog called Lean Six Sigma Academy written by Ron Pereira. It is great to hear another voice in the Continuous Improveme...

The last couple of months have been tremedously busy for me. That's great from a working point of view however the lack of blogging has...

The world of work is filled with challenges, problems and obstacles ranging from minor irritations to major catastrophes. Some of these issu...

Last week I had the opportunity to join my son, Bret, for lunch at his school in honor of National School Lunch Week. It is not often that I...

By Market Share? By Sales Revenue? By Op Inc? By Earnings Per Share? By Quarter to Quarter Comparison? All traditional measures that fail to...

When I returned home from Japan, via I-74 from the Indianapolis Airport to Greensburg, I could not help but notice the huge array of earth m...

With my Japan Kaikaku Experience host by Gemba Research ending, I started to reflect upon all that I experienced during my week long lean s...

For our last full day in Japan, we left the modern manufacturing world to catch a glimpse into Japanese history and explore their rich tradi...

After the intense 3S morning session followed by stretching exercises, I walked through the plant to see the lean transformation at HOKS. Ev...

On day 4 of the Japan Kaikaku Experience , our group traveled to the northeast coast of Kyushu Island. We arrived bright and earlier at HOKS...

I apologize for the delay in posting on my week long lean manufacturing study mission in Japan. For the last half of the week, I had virtual...

On our third day in Japan, we studied the lean manufacturing process at the TOTO facility in Kokura, Japan. TOTO is a hugely dominate manufa...

After a couple of days in Japan, my body is just now catching up to the radical time change shift and ready for the next lesson in lean from...

After the tour of the Toyota Motor Kyushu plant, our group headed to another factory in Southern Japan while there was still daylight to bur...

Here is a picture of Toyota's i-unit, car of the future, that was on display at the Kyushu automoble showroom . REALLY cool!