The Seven Wastes
The seven wastes is a great entry level process improvement concept and a low-risk approach to impro...
Preventing Mistakes with Poka-Yoke
To focus on improving activities which add value and removing those which do not involves eliminatin...
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.
The importance of quantifying and evaluating various aspects of a process is essential, especially i...
What is a process? And the use of SIPOC diagrams.
So, what is a process? From the SIPOC diagram’s point of view it is the supplier and all the input...
Decrease your non-conformances with the 80-20 rule
Sometimes there is too much to do, and it all gets a little overwhelming. Even after going through y...
The problem with problem solving, using the PDCA cycle
There are many structured approaches to problem solving, but the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle or ...
You cannot half cook a fish – Tales of Lean in process manufacturing
In process manufacturing you often cannot stop a process halfway through without risking ruining the...
Please, no 5S shop talk on a date night!
There are so many benefits to having a 5S workplace like reduced waste, reduced breakdowns of equipm...