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  What is lean production? AKA Toyota Production System 

  http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci810519,00.html

  - Lean production is an assembly-line manufacturing methodology developed originally for Toyota and the manufacture of automobiles. It is also known as the Toyota Production System. The goal of lean production ... is described as "to get the right things to the right place at the right time, the first time, while minimizing waste and being open to change". Engineer Ohno, who is credited with developing the principles of lean production, discovered that in addition to eliminating waste, his methodology led to improved product flow and better quality. Instead of devoting resources to planning what would be required for future manufacturing, Toyota focused on reducing system response time so that the production system was capable of immediately changing and adapting to market demands. In effect, their automobiles became made-to-order. The principles of lean production enabled the company to deliver on demand, minimize inventory, maximize the use of multi-skilled employess, flatten the manage   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  eliminate waste, kaizen, lean, lean production, toyota production system

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  KAIZEN BLITZ, tackling symptoms not causes 

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  Stuart Corrigan, Vanguard Scotland October '05 Imagine you wake up one morning realising you have a sore head, the usual remedies don't work, you think it may even be something quite serious, you take ... a trip to the Doctor's, then imagine your surprise when the Doctor asks you no questions but suggests the real problem is your leg, even worse the remedy is simply more aspirin, wouldn't you be concerned? I'm sure this situation never occurs in a Doctor's surgery but in local councils all over Scotland improper diagnosis and prescription error are soon to be the way of dealing with organisational ills. And the new medicine: Kaizen Blitz. Kaizen Blitz seems like a rational way to go about change. Get the managers to define a problem, label all the parts of the process that seem wasteful, brainstorm ideas for the removal of said waste, and instantly implement the change to those who work in the operations (including many individuals that were not privy to the project and its goals). Support   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 25 November 2007, by: Nick Slowe  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  continuous improvement, effective manangement, kaizen, management, quality methods

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  i Six Sigma - Six Sigma Quality Resources for Achieving Six Sigma Results 

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  Daily Six Sigma Quality Tip Most people use p 0.05 as the line where they reject the null in hypothesis testing. Correctly rejecting a null hypothesis is about more than just p-value.

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  10 Principles of Change Management 

  http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00006

  4/15/04 Tools and techniques to help companies transform quickly. Way back when (pick your date), senior executives in large companies had a simple goal for themselves and their organizations: stability. ... Shareholders wanted little more than predictable earnings growth. Because so many markets were either closed or undeveloped, leaders could deliver on those expectations through annual exercises that offered only modest modifications to the strategic plan. Prices stayed in check; people stayed in their jobs; life was good. Market transparency, labor mobility, global capital flows, and instantaneous communications have blown that comfortable scenario to smithereens. In most industries — and in almost all companies, from giants on down — heightened global competition has concentrated management’s collective mind on something that, in the past, it happily avoided: change. Successful companies, as Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter told s+b in 1999, develop “a culture th   [More...] [Less...]

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