Solving Problems at the Source
"…Toyota learned long ago that solving problems at the source saves time and money downstream. By continually surfacing problems and fixing them as they occur, you eliminate waste, productivity soars,…
Too Much Inventory Reduction Can Hurt
"Sustaining continuous flow also serves to surface any problem that would inhibit that flow. In essence, the creation of flow forces the correction of problems, resulting in reduced waste. We…
“5S” makes Work Areas Safe, Productive, and Reliable
"The objective of workplace organization is to create a functionally organized work environment and not to simply give the appearance that things are organized." Lean Office and Service Simplified by…
Unbelievable
"The benefits of the conversion to Lean production are typically unbelievable to someone who has not experienced the change firsthand." Lean Production- The Challenge of Multidimensional Change by George Koenigsaecker,…
Lean is a Superior Business Approach
"We should note that a Lean strategy is a superior business approach: it clearly delivers dramatic advantages tracked by conventional measures such as cycle times and defect rates, use of…
Lean Thinking…Superior Performance
"There is no doubt in our minds that, first, Lean thinking is a way of thinking that is radically different from mainstream management's thinking and, second, that it leads to…
Productivity drives competitive differentiation
"So it dawned on me that the key driver of internal cost is productivity and that productivity determined over 90 percent of our internal costs (our controllable costs; the costs…