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Top Five Lean Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Quality
The lean revolution started around 30 years ago with the "Quality Movement" lead by the likes of W. Edwards Deming. Our …
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Making Sense of Your Problems With The Cynefin Framework (The 5 Domains With Examples)
Cynefin Framework offers decision-makers a way to view a situation or problem. The model helps categorise the situation …
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Four Lean Strategies for Uncertain Economic Times
Too often the response of business in uncertain times is to do nothing and “wait and see”. This approach unfortunate…
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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 th…
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The Metrics of Concern Strips
Across manufacturing sectors we are living in a data-rich world, which is both a blessing and a curse. Data can take man…
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What Personality Type is Best Suited to Problem Solving
Most of us, at some point in recent memory will have been subjected to a personality test. Most likely it will be the My…
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Learning to Define the “Problem”
To improve our problem solving skills we need to begin by clearly defining the "problem". Those involved in the problem …
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Implementing a Robust Lean Problem Solving Process
A key transition step from "implementing" Lean to it becoming a way of life is how we build problem solving into everyth…
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Using Fishbone Diagrams to Solve Problems
Fishbone diagrams may also be referred to as cause and effect diagrams, or Ishikawa diagrams, after their founder Kaoru …
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Implementing Daily Problem Solving
A robust problem solving approach is the best method for tackling problems while implementing a Lean production system.…
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How To: Solving Problems Every Day
The SPED (Solving Problems Every Day) method is about solving many small problems every day. Most probl…
