Shareholder Value: The Long Way is the Short Cut

Every for-profit business exists for the sole purpose of providing shareholder value.

If a shareholder or owner is also responsible for bus...

Continue Reading...
Rolling-5 Action Plan Methodology

When you are working on lean, six-sigma and a variety of continuous improvement activities, the quantity of action items can get overwhelmin...

Continue Reading...
How to Manage Your Red Tag Hold Area

It’s important that a 5S kaizen team is efficient at what they do. Let’s face it, when you pull a team of 10-15 employees together for a few...

Continue Reading...
LEAN 5S: A Lean Leader’s Strategy for Sustaining

The lean 5S system contains 5-steps to achieving a more organized, controlled and efficient manufacturing plant. These steps are Sort, Set-i...

Continue Reading...
Lean 5S: A Manager’s Strategy for Sustaining

The lean 5S system contains 5-steps to achieving a more organized, controlled and efficient manufacturing plant. These steps are Sort, Set-i...

Continue Reading...
Lean 5S: Shine

The lean 5S system contains 5 steps to achieving a more organized, controlled and efficient manufacturing plant. These steps are Sort, Set-i...

Continue Reading...
Lean 5S: The Sort Step

The lean 5S steps are Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain and 5S represents the first shopfloor steps on any new lean journey...

Continue Reading...