Scientific Method and Improvement Kata
Scientific Method is the systematic observation, measurement, experimentation, formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Hypotheses are a supposition or proposed explanation made […]
Category: Lean
Demand Segmentation – one size fits none
We know better than to try to force fit strategies yet time and again we find businesses planning and managing their processes […]
Kamishibai – Work Observation Card
Kamishibai or Work Observation Card is a management tool for starting and improving Leader Standard Work,. Kamishibai, in Japanese means …. paper […]
Table top simulation – dock operations
Simulation is the act of imitating or mimicking the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous. […]
Total Flow Management
Euclides A. Coimbra and his associates at the Kaizen Institute have created a wonderful and detailed work on the application of continuous […]
Replenishment Strategies
Determining an appropriate production model starts with Demand Profile and Demand Segmentation. High volume low variability items, and low volume high variability […]
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream
Hot off the press from the Lean Enterprise Institute … Page 12 & 13 have a brief description of Coefficient […]
Demand Profile
Maslow’s hammer, or a golden hammer is an over-reliance on a familiar tool; as Abraham Maslow said in 1969 in A Psychology […]
Improve Turnaround, Shutdown, and Outage Duration: After Action Review
The practice of After Action Review, AAR, comes from the military, as in the US Army’s TC25-20 “A Leader’s Guide to After-Action […]
Guest Post – Minarai: apprentice, beginner; learn by observing
Guest post by Larry Loucka about minarai: apprentice, learner on Mark Hamel’s blog Gemba Tales: As I ready myself for a new […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Command Center
“Command Center” brings up images of NASA or maybe a natural disaster response team. For a large planned maintenance turnaround the furniture […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Scope Change Management
Uncontrolled scope change is unplanned work and this is a failure of either planning, reliability engineering, or management. Scope Change Management countermeasures […]