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...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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Stop the Madness! Implement 5S

Don’t just clean the mess, 5S!

Lean 5S’s stand for Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain and 5S is the most...

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What Comes First: The Lean or The Culture?

Does culture come before lean or does lean come before culture? It’s kind of a chicken or egg kind of question. Having implemented...

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Establishing Lean Culture

Moving the Culture Forward - Stay the course with Lean

In the beginning steps of your lean journey, not everyone will be on board and...

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