What Your #Mother Can Teach You About #Lean
TAGS: 5S | behavior | chad | clean | consulting | family | lean | lean blitz | management | may | mother's day | organize | quality | reward | safety | time studies | tools | visual | walters Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out in the world – if it wasn’t for your mother, you wouldn’t be here to read this. It’s an understatement that my …Continue reading →
Lean and the Profit Equation
TAGS: assets | blitz | business | equation | expenses | footprint | inventories | lean | liquid | maintenance | money | operations | overdeliver | processes | profit | revenues | save | seth godin | six sigma | time | time studies | underpromise | waste To examine the impact lean implementation can have on a business, let’s look at the high-level super-simplified equation for profit. PROFIT = REVENUES – EXPENSES Components of the revenue term …Continue reading →
8 Wastes – Waiting
TAGS: cleaning | concession stand | efficiency | kanban | labor balancing | lean | lean wastes | machine downtime | preventative maintenance | sales associates | standardized work | time studies | waiting (This is the third in a series of deeper dives into the 8 lean wastes.) We’ve all seen operators of a concession stand or sales associates on the floor of …Continue reading →
Target Audience – Part Two
TAGS: 5S | car maintenance | check fluids | check oil | gnomes | kanban | kitchen kanban | lean applications | lean at home | lean tools | motivation | scheduling | spaghetti diagrams | time studies | tire pressure So who else am I targeting as an audience? There are lots of little improvement opportunities and Lean applications that can have a big impact at home. What can each …Continue reading →