Lean Methodology Videos

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 how this can be used in your workplace as a powerful basis for visual control.
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 as well as reducing the need to spend excessive amounts of time planning production ...
TXM Lean Minute – Use Kaizen to Improve Your Business Every Day

Kaizen roughly means, “change for the better.” This is the terminology we often use to describe our approach to continuous improvement. Many people get caught up with lean and kaizen as being ...
TXM Lean Minute – Finding the Root Cause to Fix Problems Permanently

Teach your people to find permanent solutions to every day problems. This Lean minute video explains the basics of how to use simple root cause analysis to find the root cause of problems and develop ...
TXM Lean Minute – Managing Every Day Warehouse Tasks with ...

This Lean Minute Video explains how you can use Red-Green Tee Cards to make sure every warehouse task gets done every day. Warehouses have lots of routine tasks that need to be completed every day.
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. We call this the interim fix or containment action. Learn how to develop an effective ...
TXM Lean Minute – How to Design Efficient Order Packing ...

A critical step in any warehouse and a major source of errors and waste is the final step of checking, order packing and processing orders for shipment. In this Lean Minute Video, Michelle Brown explains ...
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 understand the data, know what is says, know why, and share the discussion in the ...
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 minimise unnecessary motion and transport and provide the right type of storage for ...
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 Minute video provides some practical tips on how to get your visual management ...
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 challenge is to achieve the customer satisfaction that is desired by the business ...
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 explains how you can save time, have shorter meetings and better results with live ...
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 machine or workstation area. This Lean minute explains how Short Interval Control production ...
TXM Lean Minute – Bring the Pace of the Customer in your ...

Bring the Pace of your customer in to your business with a Lean Pacemaker. Learn the five steps to establishing a pacemaker to control your process.
TXM Lean Minute – Driving Business Performance with Effective ...

If takt time is the heart of lean production, visual management represents the nervous system in Lean management. Visual management is an indispensable tool when we implement Lean. It helps the other ...
TXM Lean Minute – Making Lean Work In a Jobbing Shop

Lean manufacturing was developed originally for assembly lines in the automotive industry. It certainly works well in mass production, however what about a jobbing shop? How do you make Lean work in ...
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 opportunities. Anthony Clyne explains in this TXM Lean Minute video how displaying your ...
TXM Lean Minute – Why Quality Control Inspection is Waste ...

Does quality inspection add value to your product? The answer is "NO", all inspection is waste and as such should be eliminated. But how do you reduce or eliminate inspection and at the same time improve ...