The 3 Essentials of a Visual Management Board
By Justin Tao – TXM China Consulting Director What is Visual Management? What is a Visual Management Board? If takt time is the heart of Lean production,...
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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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New Lean Thinking: How Understanding Customer Value is Key to Disrupting Your Market
The recent Best Practice Network National Summit with its theme of “People, Technology and Business” has provoked a lot of discussion at TXM. Two key...
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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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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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