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Getting your Masters Degree in Business? Going after a Master Black Belt Certification? Masters in Lean Six Sigma? Do you secretly wish to b...

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One of the keynote presentations at the 2008 AME Conference was Steve Spear, author of Chasing the Rabbit. Steve’s presentation was a brief ...

What a great experience to learn from so many lean leaders and practitioners. After two days of attending sessions and networking with other...

I made it to Toronto tonight for the AME Conference this week. It should be an outstanding week and I look forward to learning more on opera...

One of the barriers to Kaizen is found in the comfortable arms of the status quo. For most of us, we have difficulty breaking away from wha...

These words spoken by Taiichi Ohno have been one of his most popular and well known sayings within our lean community. Typically, we use hi...

While rolling out our My CI program to all our manufacturing facilities, we learned that acronyms do not translate well. In our Chihuahua, ...

At 7:50 am this morning, the first Honda Civic production vehicle, a 4 cylinder, 4 door, crystal black pearl sedan, drove off the assembly l...

Yuza Yasuda, author of 40 Years, 20 Million Ideas: The Toyota Suggestion System , describes the spirit of the Toyota Suggestion system in th...

At the end of a fast paced, energy draining, week long kaizen event, despite all the improvements achieved, our teams always ends up with ta...

I finally found a copy of the book 40 Years, 20 Million Ideas: The Toyota Suggestion System by Yuzo Yasuda and I did have not pay the going...

It just took a few months and we filled up our Kaizen Wall of Fame with implemented ideas from our associates at the Batesville Indiana plan...

In the middle of a value stream mapping kaizen event, the team was stopped dead in its tracks. Our first-time team leader approached me in a...

In Lean 101, the lean approach is concisely stated as the elimination of waste in our processes. While waste elimination gets to the core of...

At one of Batesville Casket’s kaizen events last week, we found out the answer to this question. It took the whole team of eleven members in...

“Now I think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m going to drink till I get my fill. And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thin...

From my last post on the power of point lessons, the results from our spaghetti diagram training are in. After a short 15 minute lesson fol...

As a Lean Sensei, I try to live up to the standards set by my Japanese Lean Sensei as I teach the way of lean. Although I readily will testi...

Although the concept of My CI is quite simple and straightforward, it is similar to many of the other elements of a lean way where the conce...