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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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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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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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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A Multi Level Approach to Problem Solving with Trigger Points
As you and your company travel along the lean journey, the ability for your team to identify and take part in solving their own problems becomes important....
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Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks of Value Stream Mapping
Previously we talked about the stumbling blocks with creating a value stream map. Here we will look at ways of overcoming the stumbling block in the four...
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Potential Stumbling Blocks When Creating a Value Stream Map
Understanding your company’s “Value Stream” is an important part of your Lean Manufacturing journey, regardless of what type of products you are...
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Address Old Problems with The Six Big Losses in Manufacturing
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Practical Tips for Warehouse Signage
We often talk about the importance of visual controls, and how they help to improve the efficiency of our teams. On a recent visit to the Heldon warehouse...
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Benchmarking the Lean principles at Subway
It can be hard to visualise what “best practice” may look like and be able to share that vision with your team. A great place to see key lean principles...
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Managing Knowledge Work with Kanban
In a manufacturing environment, we can quickly move to a visual display of the work to allow our team to show the status of work. With a worldwide shift...
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Top Five Lean Videos from TXM
Over the past three years we have posted dozens of videos, but a few have really connected with the on-line audience. The common thread is that they offer...
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The “Maslow’s Hierarchy” of Continuous Improvement
Companies that are just beginning their lean journey will often talk about the company culture they would like to instil into their organisation. For some...
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