Is Your Business Ready for Lean?
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...
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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 simple. It really is the most fundamental...
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Eliminate the 3 Key Wastes to Create a Lean Office Environment
By TXM Senior Consultant, Justin Tao Lean Thinking defines waste as work that adds no value to the customer. The well-known Seven Wastes are transportation,...
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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?” In manufacturing, we all love the “next...
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Understanding Your Production Capacity
What is the production capacity of your business? It is surprising how few manufacturers can answer this question. Even for those who can provide an answer,...
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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...
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How Well are We Doing Today? Finding the Right Business Metrics
Imagine a sport where the score was unknown until two weeks after the game, was often inaccurate and the players were never told the score. Such a sport...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 3 – Overcoming Learned Helplessness.
Observing many companies, we often find four big cultural barriers – complacency, low expectations, learned helplessness, and passive acceptance. So...
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Five Short 5S Videos that You Must Watch
Over the years, we have helped hundreds of companies implement Practical 5S, our proven approach to 5S deployment. These five 5s videos provide you with...
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Four Simple Tips for a Successful Kanban System
Kanban Systems or Pull systems of various types with are now common across many industries. They are cheap, simple to operate and can lead to large cost...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 2 – Beating Low Expectations
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...
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Inventory—Understand it Before you Try to Slash it!
One of the biggest costs in a business and often the largest commitment of cash is inventory. In lean thinking all inventory is also waste. So what is...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 1 – Breaking through Complacency
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...
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Find the Hidden Waste in your Business
When you walk through your workplace do you find it hard to see waste? Maybe you have implemented 5S so the workplace looks well organized and have a solid...
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What is a Value Stream Map?
Surely everyone knows what is a value stream map? At least you would expect Lean practitioners and Lean consultants to know? Sadly, I find that is not...
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Supporting Good Communication with Technology
Good communication is central to having a prospering organisation and technology solutions may be able to help take your communication to the next level....
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How to Recruit a Great Operations Manager
How do you recruit a great Operations Manager i? We talked to an experienced manufacturing recruiter and came up with some simple steps that will hopefully...
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Keeping Score with Good Metrics: Grand Finals and our Businesses
It’s Grand Final season and our eyes will be on the scoreboard during the game, keeping track of the timing clock and watching the scores. So what can...
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Effectively Using a Skills Matrix to Develop Your Team
The “people issues” become critical as we develop processes and standard ways of working to optimise our efficiencies and workflow. Effectively using...
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Avoiding a “Bad” Improvement Project
We’ve all seen those improvement projects that look out of place and not aligned with the company direction. So, how do you ensure your improvement project...
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