Lean Manufacturing and Lean Six Sigma Articles
Lean Manufacturing, Lean Healthcare, Seven Wastes, and Six Sigma
- Implementing Lean Manufacturing
- Lean Transformation Action Plan
- Lean and Operational Excellence for Healthcare
- Turning Executive Vision to Action for Bottom Line Results
- Lean Manufacturing Overview
- The Tools and Methods of Six Sigma
- Lean and the 2008 Financial Crisis
- Is Lean for Everyone?
- Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Recall Crisis
- Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Recall Crisis Part 2
- Lean Manufacturing in a Lean Economy
- Developing a Foundation for Lean
- The 7 Manufacturing Wastes
- Lean and Six Sigma
- Lean Manufacturing versus Lean Six Sigma
- Using DFM, Lean, and Six Sigma Effectively
- Planning for Lean Implementation
- Lean Works for Any Organization
Design for Manufacturability
- Design For Manufacturability
- Design For Manufacturability Kaizen Events
- Reducing Cost while Maintaining Value through DFM
- How Venture Capitalists Can Capitalize on DFM
Value Stream Mapping
- Value Stream Mapping
- Identifying Your Value Streams
- Value Stream Analysis: Mapping the Current State
- Value Stream Analysis: Mapping the Future State
- Value Stream Analysis: A Case Study
5S Visual Workplace and Standardized Work
- Effective 5S
- 5S Implementation
- 5S and Improving Flow
- 5S in a Healthcare Environment
- Sustaining 5S
- Standardized Work
- 8 Steps to Standard Work - By Jeff Hajek of Velaction
Outsourcing and the Extended Value Stream
- Supplier Relationships in a Lean Enterprise
- Make v. Buy: Considerations when Outsourcing for Cost Reduction
- Outsourcing and the Extended Value Stream: Taking Lean Manufacturing to the Next Level
- Key Metrics of the Extended Value Stream
- The Seven Wastes of the Extended Value Stream
- Toyota's Extended Lean Enterprise
- Lean Supply Chain Blog
SMED / Quick Changeover
- Quick Changeover and SMED: An Overview
- How to Implement a Quick Changeover Program
- Quick Changeover for Non-traditional Applications
- Quick Changeover and EPEI
- Changeover Reduction Kaizen Case Study
Cellular Manufacturing and One Piece Flow
- Cellular Manufacturing Overview
- What is One-Piece Flow?
- One Piece Flow Kaizen Case Study
- Implementing Continuous Flow Cells
- Types of Manufacturing Cells
- Achieving Basic Stability
- Achieving One Piece Flow
Material Flow, Leveling Work, Kanban, and Pull Systems
- Lean Production Control: Pull Systems
- Kanban: Are You Ready
- Heijunka: Leveling the Load
- Implementing Level Pull
- Leveling Workload: Overview plus 3 Examples
- A Case Study in Replenishment Pull
- Applying Pull Systems
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Kaizen Events
- The Power of Kaizen
- Planning and Conducting Kaizen Events
- Design For Manufacturability Kaizen Events
- How and When to Use Kaizen Events
Lean Office / Administrative Functions
- What is Lean Office?
- Lean Administrative Processes: The Seven Wastes
- Lean Administrative Processes: Process Mapping
Lean Culture and Lean Learning
- Creating an Environment for Continuous Improvement
- Developing a Foundation for Lean
- Lean Culture
- Lean Culture at Toyota
- Lean and the Learning Organization
- Lean Leadership: A Tale of Two Companies
- Overcoming Resistance to Change- By Jeff Hajek of Velaction
- Toyota's Learning Organization
- Training and Education in a Lean Enterprise