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After finishing Henry Ford’s book, “My Life and Work”, published in 1922, it is easy to see the impact his approach to manufacturing had on ...

It is extremely encouraging that lean manufacturing principles are beginning to take hold as an improvement approach in our healthcare indu...

“The basis of the Toyota production system is the absolute elimination of waste.” Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System, 1988 As business l...

My first professional job after graduating from college was a Junior Industrial Engineer tasked with time study duty and implementing method...

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...