Lean Methodology Archives

TXM Lean Minute – Traffic Light Graphics for Visual Control

Traffic lights are universally understood - red means stop, green means go and orange means watch out! This video shows …
TXM Lean Minute – Using Kanban to Connect Processes

One of the requirements of Lean is to connect processes together, by doing this you avoid the waste of over production a…
TXM Lean Minute – Use Kaizen to Improve Your Business Every Day

TXM Lean Minute – Use Kaizen to Improve Your Business Every Day Kaizen roughly means, “change for the better.…
TXM Lean Minute – Finding the Root Cause to Fix Problems Permanently

TXM Lean Minute – Finding the Root Cause to Fix Problems Permanently Teach your people to find permanent solutions to …
TXM Lean Minute – Managing Every Day Warehouse Tasks with Red-Green Tee Cards

This Lean Minute Video explains how you can use Red-Green Tee Cards to make sure every warehouse task gets done every da…
TXM Lean Minute – Containing A Problem With An Interim Fix

When something goes wrong you usually need to take action to ensure that work can be continued and customers supplied. W…
TXM Lean Minute – How to Design Efficient Order Packing and Processing in your Lean Warehouse

TXM Lean Minute – How to Design Efficient Order Packing and Processing in your Lean Warehouse A critical step in any w…
TXM Lean Minute – The Data is in the Computer

Learn how to use data that is in the computer and talk about it every day in stand up meetings. The challenge is to unde…
TXM Lean Minute – How to Design your Lean Warehouse for Efficient Picking

A key cause of waste in a warehouse is excessive transportation and motion. Carefully designing your warehouse to minimi…
TXM Lean Minute – How to Start a Visual Management Board

We all know visual management boards are an important part of a Lean Management System, but how do you start. This Lean …
TXM Lean Minute – Using Lean Visual Controls in the Office

This Lean Minute focuses is on lean visual controls in the office, with a particular focus on how the work flows.The cha…
TXM Lean Minute – Live and Visual Minute Taking

Maximise the productivity of your meetings with live and visual minute taking. TXM Consulting Director Anthony Clyne exp…
TXM Lean Minute Video – Using Short Interval Control for Planning

Short interval control production boards are a key tool to stabilizing and sustaining our lean processes within a machin…
TXM Lean Minute – Bring the Pace of the Customer in your Business with a Pacemaker

Bring the Pace of your customer in to your business with a Lean Pacemaker. Learn the five steps to establishing a pacema…
TXM Lean Minute – Driving Business Performance with Effective Visual Management

If takt time is the heart of lean production, visual management represents the nervous system in Lean management. Visual…
TXM Lean Minute – Making Lean Work In a Jobbing Shop

TXM Lean Minute – Making Lean Work In a Jobbing Shop Lean manufacturing was developed originally for assembly line…
TXM Lean Minute – Display your Value Stream Maps in the Workplace

Displaying your current state value stream map near to the place where the work is done can unearth ideas and opportunit…
TXM Lean Minute – Why Quality Control Inspection is Waste You Should Eliminate

Does quality inspection add value to your product? The answer is "NO", all inspection is waste and as such should be eli…
TXM Lean Minute – The Five Steps to Achieving Level Production (Heijunka)

Achieving level production is a key objective of a Lean production system. Level production occurs when each process ste…
TXM Lean Minute – Daily Standup Meetings Are Not Just for the Factory

Many businesses have found that having quick daily stand up meetings around a visual management board is an excellent wa…
TXM Lean Minute – Balancing Workflow for Level Production

Lean manufacturing aims for level production, where the throughput of each process step is balanced to match the rate of…
TXM Lean Minute – Avoiding the Waste of Overproduction

As leaders in a manufacturing business we need to be careful about the messages we send. When we put too much emphasis o…
TXM Lean Minute – Level Production and Creating a Visual Workflow

Levelling work enables you see the status of production in real time and gets products and services to your customers on…
TXM Lean Minute – Lean Thinking – What is Value? What is Waste?

Fundamental to Lean Thinking is the concept of value and waste. This simple video explains the concepts so you can start…
TXM Lean Minute – Engage your People in Value Stream Mapping

Value Stream Mapping is a great tool for understanding your business. Building a value stream map based on superficial o…
TXM Lean Minute – Autonomous Maintenance

Care for your machine like you care for your car. In this Lean Minute, TXM China Consulting Director, Justin Tao, explai…
TXM Lean Minute – Improve your Business with Active Experimentation

Adults learn by doing. We call this active experimentation. In this Lean Minute video, Anthony Clyne explains how you ca…
TXM Lean Methodology – Manufacturing Agility Process

TXM has adapted proven Lean value stream mapping techniques to work for complex, customised and low volume production pr…
TXM Lean Minute – Lean Metrics Drive Improvement

What gets measured gets done. Human behaviour is that the things we measure in business are often the things that get th…
TXM Lean Minute – The Lean Sales Process – Solution Selling

Lean sales is about applying Lean thinking directly to improve the value that customers get from your product or service…
TXM Lean Methodology Video – Practical 5S

5S is probably the most well known Lean technique and is one of the essential foundations of a successful production sys…
TXM Lean Minute – Creating a Lean Quality Culture

As leaders we determine the culture of the organisations we lead.This is especially the case when it comes to quality. T…
TXM Lean Minute – What is Lean Manufacturing?

Lots of people talk about Lean Manufacturing and Lean Enterprise and Lean Manufacturing, but what is it really? At TXM w…
TXM Lean Minute – How to Level Lean Production to Takt Time

When you make a simple mass produced product, leveling lean production is relatively easy. However for customised produc…
TXM Lean Minute – Why Your Business Needs Lean Visual Controls

Visual controls are simple visual cues or signals that tell us the current situation and enable us to make decisions bas…
TXM Lean Minute – Creating Lean Standardised Work for Customised Products

Lean standardised work is one of the foundation tools of Lean Thinking. However for custom products it can be difficult …
TXM Lean Minute – Kanban Posts

Our second “Lean Minute” about Kanban focuses on a common problem with every kanban system – making su…
TXM Lean Minute – Accumulation Kanban

TXM Lean Minute – Accumulation Kanban Our first “Lean Minute” videos focus on one of the most recognizable…