This is Part 2 of the Pyzdek Institute Lean Concepts Study. To recap from Part 1: We are all fortunate to have the accumulated knowledge of manufacturing industry titans...
Read more
04Aug
The Truth About Transport Waste
We are all fortunate to have the accumulated knowledge of manufacturing industry titans readily available to help us improve processes and reduce costs. In the Lean context, Taiichi Ohno...
Read more
03Jan
Convert Opinion to Continuous Data For 15 Bucks (Part 1)
We will start with a statement of the obvious. Our quality-related data comes to us in many forms. Assuming our sensors, measurement systems and measurement methods work well, we...
Read more
01Dec
The Visual Safety FMEA
While the visual approach to FMEA isn’t suitable for all applications, it is an excellent method for improving safety. And, of course, nothing is more important to an organization...
Read more
16Nov
A Lean Process FMEA
The visual PFMEA method differs from the formal method in several ways. First, the approach is highly visual, relying on at-Gemba observations augmented by a series of process videos...
Read more
