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Category Archives: lean manufacturing

Improvement Influencers

For an organization to develop a sustainable continuous improvement culture it must, as we say at GBMP, involve everybody everyday – i.e., process..
This entry was posted in TPS, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement on September 09 , 2024.

Office Work

I was asked to lead a workshop in the sales order department of a manufacturer whom we had helped with process improvement on the factory floor...
This entry was posted in lean manufacturing, kaizen, administrative kaizen on March 19 , 2024.

Push The Cart

There’s a certain irony for me in the attention given recently to the application of robots on the shop floor. On a couple occasions in the past..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, GBMP, kaizen, bruce hamilton on February 28 , 2023.

Year End Muda

So much of the technical aspect of Lean relates to time: cycle time, lead-time, takt time, set-up time, and, of course, time associated with waste...
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, GBMP, kaizen on December 30 , 2022.

Robot Day

I responded recently to a LinkedIn post regarding AI-assisted robotic recycling. The sorting speed is so fast, we almost miss each sort in the..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, GBMP, kaizen on September 06 , 2022.

Everyday Collaboration

With GBMP’s 18th Annual Northeast Lean Conference on the horizon, I’m reflecting on our theme, “Amplifying Lean – The Collaboration Effect.” The term..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, GBMP, kaizen on August 12 , 2022.

Uncommon Sense

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This advice, attributed to Nicolo Machiavelli, and later cited by Winston Churchill at the conclusion of WWII,..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, GBMP, kaizen on August 05 , 2022.

The Natural

In 1985, about the time I was discovering there was a better way to produce products, The Natural, a film about an aging baseball player with..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, kanban, continuous improvement, kaizen on March 29 , 2022.

Too Happy Too Soon Part 2

[Editor’s Note: This post is part 2 of a post from March 1, Do Your Job. If you haven’t already read it, reading it will help to provide context.] ..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, kaizen on March 09 , 2022.

Do Your Job

We had been working with TSSC for two years to build a model line in our assembly department. As we moved from small batch production to one-by-one,..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, kaizen on March 01 , 2022.

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