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This year, facebook reports membership at more than 500 million active users with over 50% active each day and more than 30 billion pieces o...

What do you see in this picture? Beside a lack of any real 5S, what thoughts come to your kaizen mind about the motors? Perhaps you may th...

Over the past several years, I have encountered a growing negative view towards kaizen events, continuous improvement events, rapid improvem...

Here is a simple kaizen for motors which can be part of our Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program. 1. Remove the motor intake cover ov...

If you like the Toast Kaizen Video like I do, here is a funny parody video called "Beer Kaizen" done by KCOE. Laugh and Enjoy!

I stumbled across a relatively new lean blog called 2 Lean Principals or 2LP for short. It features lean thinking from Jason Ballard and To...

Here is a great “creativity before capital” idea using tennis balls. I have actually seen this used with excellent results in a plant lunchr...

Over my career, I have run across “difficult” people. These include no particular group; they have been bosses, co-workers, employees, team ...

As you may have noticed or perhaps not, my posting has been non-existent for the past couple of months. No worries, just focusing on my clie...

Here is an amazing presentation by RSA animate with a talk by Dan Pink on what motivates us. Great information. Enjoy and learn.

“The Air Conditioners versus Non-Air Conditioners”, this is how one employee explained it to me today, from his eyes on the shop floor, of t...

The Northeast Shingo Prize Conference will be held in Providence, Rhode Island on October 19-20, 2010. This is another conference I will be ...

The Reliable Plant Conference 2010 will be held in Nashville, Tennessee on August 31 thru September 2nd. I plan on attending and honored to ...

One cultural aspect of American business that is both a driving force and a curse is our obsession with getting results. It does not matter...

It is not important to know “how to kaizen” as it is “to kaizen”. It does not matter so much if we start with 5S on our lean journey as it ...

When we say company metrics, many of us quickly think of Cost, Quality, Safety, Delivery and Morale. All are important metrics for any comp...

According to the USA Today, printed in the Friday, May 7th, 2010 edition, a glimmer of economic hope is seeming given with news of U.S. prod...

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In the movie, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson playing the role of a hard-core, old-school, tough-as-nails Marine Colonel delivers the famous ...

I strongly believe that one of the keys to a successful lean transformation is management involvement, not just management support. Involvem...