Problem Solving with Ishikawa
All organisations face problems daily, and a significant portion of our time is spent addressing the...
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...
News- How to work less and achieve more
On the 12 September in Doncaster Michael Stephenson will be giving a workshop entitled “How to Wor...
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...