What White Cars in Istanbul Have to Tell Us About Creating a Lean Culture
Managing Director Tim McLean writes about culture and how it has a huge impact on how your business will perform.
The Top Six Ways to Start Your Lean Industry 4.0 Implementation
Industry 4.0 is the latest and greatest and a daunting undertaking. Read our Top 6 ways to get started.
Understanding How Industry 4.0 Will Transform Your Business
Industry 4.0 will transform your business in ways you might not yet understand. Learn how your business might be transformed by these new technologies.
The Advantages & Challenges: Implementing Industry 4.0 Technologies
The 4th Industrial Revolution will bring about untold change to manufacturing. It will also bring advantages but with these changes comes some big challenges to overcome.
What Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Industry 4.0?
Get an overview of what Industry 4.0 is, how it fits into lean, how it’s changing manufacturing.
TXM Lean Case Study – Earlee Products
Learning the Recipe for Streamlining Food Processing Earlee Products has been creating ingredients and processing food products for around 30 years. The company has partnered with leading food and beverage manufacturers across Australia, and the world, using technical expertise to solve challenges and identify new opportunities in the food innovation space. With the ability to …
Is It Time to Get Out of China?
Manufacturing in China has been turned upside down and its probably a good time to think about relocating your operations back home.
Lean Factory Design: Lessons for Plant & Operations Managers
In this article Tim McLean explains lessons he has learned from his time creating a Lean Factory. All Stakeholders must be engaged through the process.
How to Use Lean for Factory Layout Design
How to use Lean when designing a new Factory Layout Design. There a variety of things that you need to understand before pulling the trigger.
The Secrets of Food Factory Layout Design
Food Factory Layout Design needs special considerations before committing to your layout. Read our secrets to the perfect food factory layout design.
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Our Top 10 Lean Layout Principles for assessing the setup of your factory, warehouse or workshop. Read our proven Lean Layout Principles.
TXM Lean Case Study – Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses
The Challenge Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses is a family owned and operated bakery business based in Melbourne, Australia. The business began as two separate entities with the families coming together to form Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses in 1980. Ferguson Plarre now has 76 stores across Victoria. They are a leading industrial bakery, servicing a chain of over …
TXM Lean Case Study – EGR North America
EGR Group called upon TXM’s services to help drive revenue growth by reducing work in progress and driving lead time from 21 days to a consistent 4 days.
Free Lean Workshop at Pilkington Glass UK
Free Lean Workshop at Pilkington Glass UK Join us for a free Lean workshop at Pilkington Glass. Lean concepts are powerful tools for increasing productivity and enabling your business to reach its growth and profit potential. However, the challenge is to adapt these powerful techniques so they are relevant to the challenges of a small …
TXM Lean Minute – Consider the True Cost of that Special Bulk Deal
TXM Lean Minute – Consider the True Cost of that Special Bulk Deal What is the true cost of your purchasing decisions? Hi I’m Tim Scurlock and welcome to this TXM Lean Minute. When your buying stock and think you have a good deal consider first the consequences in terms not just of the purchase …
TXM Lean Minute – Using Kanban to Connect Processes
One of the requirements of Lean is to connect processes together, by doing this you avoid the waste of over production as well as reducing the need to spend excessive amounts of time planning production and figuring out what’s next.
How To Create Flow When There is No Assembly Line
One of the most well-known Lean concepts is that of “flow”. The most familiar example of flow is the automotive assembly line. In this article Tim McLean runs your through how to create a production flow without an assembly line.
TXM Lean Case Study – Hazchem Safety
Hazchem Safety in Brackley are the UK’s leading supplier of safety clothing and equipment for the transport and handling of dangerous goods. Hazchem Safety are celebrating 40 years of protecting people transporting hazardous goods.
TXM Lean Minute – Managing Your Inventory From Long Lead Time Suppliers
In this Lean Minute, TXM UK Senior Lean Consultant, Lee Candy explains the principles behind reducing stock and increasing frequency can help you manage you supplier relationships more effectively. This Lean Minute was filmed at Broadfix UK Read the Video Transcript The problem many manufacturing, and warehouses businesses face is how they manage their stock …
TXM Lean Minute – Start Your Day with a Stand Up Meeting
Read the Video Transcript How many productive hours do you lose each day? Hi I’m Tim Scurlock and welcome to this TXM Lean Minute. The start of each working day helps to set the pace and tone for the rest of the day. That’s why TXM recommend you start each day with a daily stand …
TXM Lean Minute – Make Stock Checks Part of Your Daily Routine
Do you shut your facility for your annual stock checks? This can cause unnecessary disruption to your organisation. Getting the right level of stock is a science take the guess work out by conducting daily stock checks for greater accuracy. The aim is to ensure that you have the right stock levels to fulfill …
Four Lean Strategies for Uncertain Economic Times
Too often the response of business in uncertain times is to do nothing and “wait and see”. This approach unfortunately means that the business is unprepared when the underlying direction of the economy (upwards or downwards) becomes clear. Instead we recommend businesses take proactive steps during uncertain time to prepare them for whatever future conditions …
Five Career Limiting Mistakes Operations Leaders Should Avoid
Senior leaders in operations often have the largest proportion of the workforce reporting to them and need to balance improving performance by ensuring that day to day operations run smoothly. Read the top five operations mistakes that leaders should avoid.
TXM Lean Minute – Use Kaizen to Improve Your Business Every Day
TXM Lean Minute – Use Kaizen to Improve Your Business Every Day Kaizen roughly means, “change for the better.” This is the terminology we often use to describe our approach to continuous improvement. Many people get caught up with lean and kaizen as being just small improvements that happen every day across the organization. …
Five Tips for Designing an Organisational Structure that Works
It would be nice to think that people in an organisation could just organise themselves and work out what they have to do. In very small businesses, this is what happens. People just jump in and “do what needs to be done”. However as businesses grow, they need to define a structure and roles within …
TXM Lean Minute – Learn How to Get the Right Inventory Level for Your Business
TXM Lean Minute – Learn How to Get the Right Inventory Level for Your Business Getting the right inventory in the right quantity at the right time is critical to your business success. Calculating the right level of inventory is a science, not guesswork or gut feel. The aim is to ensure that you have …
The Top Seven Common Problems in Project Manufacturing and How to Overcome Them
What is Project Manufacturing? When we think of a manufacturing business, we usually think of a business that manufactures a defined range of products. These products are manufactured in the same way every time. Product development typically involves a creative design phase, a process of testing and approval, prototyping or production trials and finally product …
Right Part, Right Place, Right Time
The Keys to Successful Lean Material Management Over the years many manufacturers have adopted Lean tools focused on improving the efficiency of production processes. However, often despite these efforts manufacturers still suffer downtime, poor productivity and missed deliveries. The cause is the inability to get materials to the right place at the right time and …
Our Top Five Lean Leadership Videos
Over the years, Lean Leadership has been a key focus of our blogs and videos. TXM Lean Solutions has plenty of resources for you to read, watch and learn. Here is a selection of Lean Leadership videos. TXM Lean Methodology Video – Lean Daily Leadership Process The key to growing a business is often the …
TXM Lean Minute – Streamline Packaging Process with One Piece Flow
Learn how to apply one piece flow to packaging. Packaging processes are often neglected in process design. One piece flow of packaging can offer a simple, low cost solution for packaging your products.
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TXM Lean Case Study – Broadfix
TXM helped Broadfix achieve a 25% reduction in inventory and their backorders have fallen by 80% all whilst using their existing machines and setup. Watch the Interview with Richard Jenner!
Is Your Business Ready for Lean?
Is Lean Right For You? We see many businesses that are facing big problems. Often there are major problems with flow (both in the office and the factory), long lead times, poor on time delivery and poor quality. Housekeeping and safety is often not up to standard and front line staff are disengaged. Sometimes …
Achieving Perfect Delivery with a Lean Supply Chain
What does it take to deliver what your customer needs, in the quantity they need, on time, every time? It should be simple. It really is the most fundamental requirement of any manufacturing or distribution business. So why do so many businesses find on time, in full delivery so hard to achieve? TXM Expertise: Supply …
Does Industry 4.0 Mean the End of Lean?
Does Industry 4.0 Mean the End of Lean? In the last couple of years I have been asked a surprising question. “Does Industry 4.0 mean the end of Lean?” So should you be parking your Lean initiatives and bringing in Industry 4.0 experts to assess your readiness for the next wave of manufacturing? What is …
Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 4: Stopping Passive Acceptance
Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems very difficult in some organisations. They seem to have a form of entropy where all improvement regresses quickly back to the mediocre normal. Observing these companies, we often find four big cultural barriers – complacency, low expectations, learned helplessness, and passive acceptance. …
TXM Lean Case Study – DMG Mori China
The Challenge DMG Mori is one of the largest machine tools builders in the world. Like many manufacturers in China, DMG Mori was facing rapid rising costs. This was making it difficult for the Shanghai factory to compete with other DMG Mori plants, particularly those in Eastern Europe. This led to a fall in export …
Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 3: Overcoming Learned Helplessness
Read these tips to overcome the barriers to learned helplessness. Creating a lean culture or a positive change within an organisation can seem difficult.