What is Value Stream Mapping?
How to Start Value Stream Mapping Understanding your company’s Value Stream is an important part of Lean Manufacturing, regardless of...
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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....
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How to Build Your Own Kanban Boards
Building your own Kanban board can be a lot easier if you follow these three considerations....
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The Top 12 Lean Tools for Lean Manufacturing
Read our top 12 Lean tools for sustaining a Lean transformation....
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What is Lean Manufacturing?
Discover what Lean Manufacturing is, it's methodologies, it's main purpose, why its important, what are lean principles and how to...
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The Definitive Guide To Visual Management
Visual Management is the lifeblood of a Lean production system. Learn the details of great visual management....
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Lean Visual Management Tools: 5 Types of Visual Controls
Visual Management and Visual Controls go hand in hand they are the life blood of a Lean production system. Our...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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