Four Lean Strategies for Uncertain Economic Times
If we were to choose one word to describe business conditions at the start of 2019, that word would be uncertainty. In Britain and Europe business is trying...
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The Top Ways to Engage Suppliers to Improve your Supply Chain
Everyone wants to engage suppliers to improve performance. It seems like an easy win – no need to deal with messy organisational politics, no one to...
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Five Career Limiting Mistakes Operations Leaders Should Avoid
Managing operations is tough, whether you are in manufacturing, service, distribution or resources. You are responsible for ensuring that the wheels of...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Our Top Five Lean Leadership Videos
One of the big (and rather unsurprising) insights of the last decade is that success with Lean depends on the full engagement and support of leaders at...
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Implementing an ERP System
In modern manufacturing, one of the biggest investments you will make will be a business management software system. This usually means implementing an...
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Role Of The Senior Leadership Team In Ensuring Lean Delivers Improved Culture And Results
Embracing lean thinking and making it part of your corporate DNA is a difficult challenge. Your Senior Leadership Team is key to achieving this. Start...
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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 be simple. It really is the most fundamental...
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Eliminate the 3 Key Wastes to Create an efficient Lean Office Environment
By TXM Senior Consultant, Justin Tao Lean Thinking defines wastes 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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