Category Archives: old lean dude (17)

Our machine shop was assisted by Toyota Supplier Support Center in 1996 to reduce set-ups on our CNC lathes. TSSC had already helped us in a..

Last week I visited with JVS, a terrific Boston-area organization whose mission “is to empower individuals from diverse communities to find..

Bob was an outside salesman in from the field for a sales meeting at the plant. We asked him to stop by to participate with a problem-solving team..

I attended a very nice presentation recently by a person who has been leading the Lean charge for several years at a major medical center. As he..

It's funny, hosting a bunch of Lean thinkers as we did at our recent Northeast region Shingo Prize Conference, that participants tend to be..

Very early in my Lean adventure as a new VP of Operations, when the idea of listening to workers was still a little strange, I returned from a week..

There’s just one week left before our Northeast region Shingo Conference, so here are some final words about sharing, which is the theme for this..

There are important concepts that we learn as children, initially through recitation, and later backfill with deeper meaning: things like the Pledge..

Our September 25-26 Northeast Region Shingo Conference is all about sharing: information, ideas, problems, plans – all of those things that can make..

I was in a factory recently that looked like a warehouse. The manager proudly described how they had eliminated their stockroom and brought all..