Not knowing the long-term capability of your processes is like driving your car at night during a snowstorm. Visibility is poor and driving ...

People don’t usually associate having fun with working in manufacturing. The typical perception of manufacturing is that manufacturing plant...

If your operation is suffering from raw material inventory problems such as excessive stock, stock outages, frequent transactions and inaccu...

Love may be a strong word for a continuous improvement tool, but in this case, it is warranted. So what do I really love about the PDCA cycl...

Leaders often ignore it when employees take process shortcuts. They think "no-harm, no-foul". In other words, they think that if the shortcu...

Kaizen Kickoff Complete! But now what?

So you are fully committed to your lean implementation and there is nothing that is going to get in ...

Got a Performance Issue? DO NOT Ignore It! 

This can be a difficult concept for some leaders to grasp. I’ve seen many leaders who don’t use...