The Beauty of Velocity

In a manufacturing plant, it’s important that your product moves through the factory at a high velocity.

What is factory velocity? Velocity...

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Three Things We Need from Our Boss

We would be happy and successful employees if our managers just did three simple things for us. If we had these three things, we would other...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Lean 55: Standardize

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

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