Little’s Law Redux
Recently I had the opportunity to sit in on a desk top simulation of a manufacturing cell design. The process is called […]
Author: Lawrence Loucka
Minitab training from Value-Train
Minitab is possibly the most widely used statistical software package in the Six Sigma world. Our friend Bill Bentley has just announced […]
100 Bullshit Jobs …
Stanley Bing has done it again with his latest treatise on corporate life with 100 Bullshit Jobs…And How to Get Them. The […]
Tinker Air Force Base
Continuous process improvement is alive and well at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base. For proof, look […]
Certified Supply Chain Professional
The Certified Supply Chain Professional is the new industry certification program sponsored by the American Production and Inventory Control Society to meet […]
Kaizen isn’t an event
"Kaizen, or continuous improvement, isn’t something you do once. It’s a way of life." I said. The VP gave me a funny […]
Sales & Operations Planning
Dick Ling gave a talk on Sales & Operations Planning at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Atlanta chapter of the American Production […]
Curse of the Shingo Prize?
Over at LeanBlog, Mark Graban writes about the latest batch of Shingo award recipients in his posts 2006 Shingo Prize Winners, Shingo […]
Fast Innovation
Fast Innovation : Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability by Michael George, James Works, and Kimberly Watson-Hemphill is a […]
Driving the Bus
A colleague of mine, Charlie Hagan, had a unique scale for assessing professional experience and competence. He would describe someone as either […]
Little’s Law
The inventory in a process is related to the throughput rate and throughput time by the following equation: W.I.P. Inventory = Throughput […]
Warehousing Maturity
Recently a supply chain executive asked me to rate his warehousing operations. "OK, on what scale?" I said, trying to be honest […]