What White Cars in Istanbul Have to Tell Us About Creating a Lean Culture
This week, I was fortunate enough to visit the spectacularly beautiful city of Istanbul on a business trip. As the meeting point of East and West for over...
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How to Build Your Own Kanban Boards
In this blog Anthony Clyne talks about building your own Kanban Boards. Kanban Boards A Kanban board with tags and tasks for operators on the factory floor....
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The Top 12 Lean Tools for Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing and its Lean Tools has evolved from its beginnings at Toyota into a system used by businesses around the world. Lean Manufacturing has...
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What is Lean Manufacturing?
Lean Manufacturing has been around since the 80s. While lean has been around for quite some time, the underlying principles are still relevant today. In...
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The Definitive Guide To Visual Management
Lean has evolved over the years becoming the go to methodology for process improvement and continuous improvement. Visual management is the lifeblood of...
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Lean Visual Management Tools: 5 Types of Visual Controls
Managing Director Tim McLean explains the different types of visual controls you can implement. Visual Controls Visual Management and Visual Controls go...
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The 3 Essentials of a Lean Visual Management Board
By Justin Tao – TXM China Consulting Director What is a Visual Management Board? If takt time is the heart of Lean production, then Visual Management...
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How To Create Flow When There is No Assembly Line
How To: Create Flow Without an Assembly Line One of the most well-known Lean concepts is that of “flow”. The most familiar example of flow is the automotive...
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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....
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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...
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Understanding Your Production Capacity
Understanding Your Production Capacity What is the production capacity of your business? It is surprising how few manufacturers can answer this question....
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Four Simple Tips for a Successful Kanban System
Simple Steps for an Effective Kanban System Kanban Systems or Pull systems of various types are now common across many industries. They are cheap, simple...
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Waste in Lean Manufacturing: 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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Improve Buy In with a Visual Action Plan
We want to improve team buy in and take your action plan to the next level by making it visual. We’ll go into what is a visual action plan, with examples...
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Developing an Action Plan for Real World Improvements
This article is to remind you of the importance of thinking through the creation of an action plan, making sure your plan is as good as it can be with...
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Lean Tools to Support a Make to Order Production System
Here we will look at three key Lean Manufacturing tools to help support the implementation of a make to order production system. Each tools addresses a...
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Embedding PDCA Thinking into Our Visual Management
Embedding PDCA thinking into our visual management systems, particularly the Check and Act mindset, helps us to be more effective across many aspects of...
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Documenting and Sharing Improvements and Lessons Learnt
Our continuous improvements are often hard fought and hard won, so we want them to be sustained and shared. Documenting and sharing our lessons learnt...
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Act Your Way into a New Way of Thinking with 5S and Lean
Here are three Lean tools that can help our team act their way to a new way of thinking, acting “as if” they have already achieved their improvement...
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Lean Inspiration for the New Year
There is something about the end of one year and the beginning of the next that allows us to pause and reflect. Here we will reflect on a year of TXM articles...
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