Basic Excellence

Simplicity has always been a favorite topic of mine, and in fact it was the subject of one of the original posts on this blog almost three years ago.…

Toyota calls it “lowering the water level.” Imagine a value stream or a production process as a river. Reducing the inventory in the process – “lower…

My mother in-law's great passion in life is looking at houses. Whenever she visits she wants to go to every possible open house to get ideas for h…

There's a good article in today's Wall Street Journal titled the "Face of Toyota" Steps Up at a Critical Time, which discusses how T…

Today's post is guest authored by Craig Woll. Craig has a unique background in developing and applying instructional learning systems to lean manu…

A couple days ago there was an interesting post on Clark Ching's blog, which focuses on theory of constraints topics. He was quoting another guy,…

5S isn't just for screwdrivers and hammers anymore. Some people see 5S as just a matter of physical cleaning and organization of one's worksp…

No, I personally don't need any respect, but lean manufacturing does. Respect for people that is. The other pillar of lean that it seems everyone…