Category Archives: lean manufacturing (4)

Shortly after my last post, in which I referred to sowing the “seeds of change,” I enlisted the help of my son, Ben, to reseed a particularly..

To our customers, suppliers, partners and friends, For the last four months, GBMP, has of necessity, pivoted to predominantly virtual consulting,..

Most Lean folks use “5-Whys” daily to problem solve; but, relatively few are familiar with a clever problem solving device developed 30 years ago..

Football is a tough sport; tougher than most who play it. Almost everyone who plays will eventually sustain at least a minor injury. It certainly..

Twenty-twenty marks the 35th anniversary of a remarkable and unfortunately also singular event in my career: In 1985, my employer, United Electric..

The English language can be confounding. For example, the word turkey is slang for “a person considered inept or undesirable” while the idiom cold ..

After being recognized in 1990 by the Shingo Prize, my plant became an overnight hot spot for benchmarking. Hardly a week went by when there was..

Several years ago, I was asked to address a startup meeting at a new client, a large manufacturer of medical devices. The company was resource..

To close out the summer of 2019, here’s a lighthearted reflection from the summer of 1969: Today, I’m riding back from Florida bringing my new..

Reflecting on McGregor’s X and Y Theories of human motivation, Shigeo Shingo took the position that each of us by nature has a dual tendency:..