Category Archives: continuous improvement (2)

We had been working with TSSC for two years to build a model line in our assembly department. As we moved from small batch production to one-by-one,..

Every February around this time, there are welcome reminders that Spring is on the way. The first for me is a witch hazel bush in my front yard..

You may recognize the quote from Friedrich Nietzsche – or more recently from Kelly Clarkson 🙂 “What doesn’t kill you makes your stronger.” I’ve..

I sat on the phone on hold this morning, serenaded by Christmas music, interrupted periodically by a recorded message, “Your call is very..

As promised in my last post, here is another tribute to Mr. Hajime Oba: In 1996, TSSC (Toyota Production System Support Center) began working..

Just a little over a year ago we lost Hajime Oba, one of the great pioneers of TPS learning in the US. In 1992, he was the founding manager of..

PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Act (or Adjust) — is one of those acronymic concepts that regularly finds its way into Lean discussions. Descended from..

Just two days to go before our 16th Annual Northeast L.E.A.N. Conference, an opportunity for all of us to put aside the tactical realities of..

I woke up this morning to some very unsettling news, or should I say yet another crescendo in seven months of unsettling news. Wishing the..

“What’s measured improves.” So said famed management consultant and author, Peter Drucker. Assuming we are measuring the right things, how do..