Over the past four years, I’ve had a privilege few logistics professionals get: teaching hundreds of people the ins and outs of quality improvement principles. Just as important, I’ve had a chance to see the extraordinary results they’ve been able to achieve when they’ve taken what they learned, shared it with their locations and put it into action.
Beginning with a simple introduction of the methodology followed by practical application of the DMAIC tools, the book concludes with a simple project storyboard that describes how the DMAIC methodology and the relevant tools are applied in a project.
A value stream manager for a Tier 1 automobile parts supplier recently declared that the biggest obstacle to sustaining lean is the lack of manager discipline. As examples, he pointed to the day-to-day variation in the schedule of a typical manager. “They don’t even come to work at the same time each day.”
Short animation describing the seven wastes found in lean thinking
Principles of Lean, The five-step thought process for guiding the implementation of lean techniques is easy to remember, but not always easy to achieve.
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