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Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Value-Stream Mapping
Mike Rother, co-author of Learning to See, offers some insights about the dos, don’ts, and maybes of value-stream mapping.
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4 Types of Problems: The Keys to Better Organizational Problem Solving
Join Art Smalley for this important, eye-opening webinar and learn why settling on a favorite problem-solving technique or two is a big mistake. Art will…
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Podcast
Making Lean Stick: A Podcast Conversation with Mark Deluzio, Art Byrne, and Jim Womack
The long-term success of companies like Danaher, Fortive, Herman Miller, Parker Hannifin and many others, have all validated the power of lean thinking and practice.…
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The Lean Enterprise Institute, publisher of The Birth of Lean, Announces that Individual Chapters Are Now Available for Download
Lean Thinkers now can pay for just the chapters they want to read in this important book about the creation of the Toyota Production System…
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Lexicon Term
Chaku-Chaku
A method of conducting one-piece flow in a cell where machines unload parts automatically so that the operator (or operators) can carry a part directly…
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Changeover
The process of switching from the production of one product or part number to another in a machine (e.g., a stamping press or molding machine)…
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Gemba
Gemba (現場) is the Japanese term for “actual place,” often used for the shop floor or any place where value-creating work actually occurs. It is…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Releases New “Womack on Lean Management” DVD
James Womack, who led the MIT research team that gave lean production its name, reveals his latest research and thinking about lean management on a…
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Lean Management Book, Gemba Walks, by James Womack Challenges the Prevailing Management System
The latest book from the researcher who led the team that coined “lean production>” explores why lean management is better than the currently dominant management…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Publishes 2nd Edition of Seeing the Whole Value Stream with New Examples of Lean Supply Chain Analysis
Download value-stream maps of supply chains from manufacturing and service companies along with excerpts from Seeing the Whole Value Stream at the Lean Enterprise Institute’s…
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Lean Transformation Summit Delivers Inspiration and Practical Information
Nearly 500 attendees hear motivational as well as practical presentations.
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Innovative Book on Lean Product Development Updated by the Lean Enterprise Institute
With passion and penetrating insights, Lean Product and Process Development delivers insights into product development that cannot be found anywhere else.
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Why You Should Link Your Hoshin Kanri and A3 Management Processes
An organization that integrates a robust long-term-oriented strategy deployment process with a daily management process achieves greater performance gains than an organization with only one…
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