As you may have noticed there are few unique types of problems which have very large impact (Financially or in some intangible way). As we get to the process level on the shop-floor we come across hundreds, if not thousands of low impact problems. If we plot all these problems we see something which... »
Archive for November, 2009
Lean Management – Driving force of Lean Transformation
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
How many times have you sucessfully implemented change using lean tools only to realize, after few weeks or months, that the manager and other peopleĀ have either reverted back to the old methods or have found ways to circumvent the newly established methods. We learned the hard way that lean transformation cannot be supported... »
Leader Standard work – A bite a day keeps audit away!
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
I was reading “Audit Vs. leader Standard Work” by Mark Rosenthal and I suddenly realized what potential we have created at our work place. Over the course of the year we have grown very fond of the audits. Especially for 5S and we are developing auditsĀ for maintaining other lean management systems put in... »

