Anyone who is focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence must be aware that inventory level, lead time and throughput rate play a huge role in striving to this goal. Fortunately for us, MIT professor John D.C. Little proved the relationship between above mentioned variables, which is today known as “Little’s Law”.
Just hours before uploading this post, lean consulting team which I’m a part of, suggested to our client a possibility of including a Water Spider in their business processes. More…
This is an introductory video about 5S, recorded by Gemba Academy and presented by Ron Pereira. It is second and improved version of the 5S Overview video created several years ago, and which has had more than 250k views on YouTube. More…
5S is in some companies a first step on their Lean journey. It is hard to expect that an environment which is not clean, standardized and reliable could perform efficiently especially when one-piece flow concept is implemented. More…
This video shows 5S implementations taking viewers through all 5 steps of the Lean 5S. Examples in the video are from healthcare and manufacturing.
5 steps of Lean 5S mentioned in the video are: More…
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