Your business is going away. Not if, when. Someone’s going to make it go away and it might as well be you. Why not take control and make it go away on your own terms? Why not make it go away and replace it with something bigger and better? Success......
It’s tough out there. Last year we threw the kitchen sink at our processes and improved them, and now last year’s improvements are this year’s baseline. And, more significantly, competition has increased exponentially – there are more eager countries at the manufacturing party. More countries have learned that manufacturing jobs......
At every turn, lean has increased profits in the factory. Its best trick is to look at the work through a time lens, see wasted time, and get rid of it. Work is blocked by problems. You watch the work to spot blockages in the form of piles, otherwise known......
Doing new things doesn’t take a long time. What takes a long time is seeing things as they are. Getting ready takes time, not doing new. Awareness of assumptions, your assumptions, others’ assumptions, the company’s – that’s critical path. An existing design, product, service, or process looks as it does......
There is no progress without decisions. More strongly, decisions are unsung heroes of progress. Decisions are powerful – things are different after a decision. (You are different after a decision.) Before a decision it’s one way, and after, another. And once a decision is made, the follow-on actions are clear,......
Year-end numbers, quarter-to-quarter earnings, monthly production, week-to-week payroll. With today’s hyper-competition, today’s focus is today. Close-in focus is needed, it drives good stuff – vital few, productivity, quality, speed, and stock price. Without question, the close-in lens has value. But there’s a downside to this lens. Like a microscope, with......
The next level of factory simplification won’t come from your factory. It will come from outside your factory. The next level of simplification will come from upstream savings – your suppliers’ factories – and downstream savings – your distribution system. And this next level of simplification will create radically shorter......
Fun is no longer part of the business equation. Our focus on productivity, quality, and cost has killed it. Killed it dead. Vital few, return on investment, Gantt charts, project plans, and criminal number one – PowerPoint. I can’t stand it. What happens when you try to have a little......
There’s an unnatural attraction to lean – a methodology to change the value stream to reduce waste. And it’s the same with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) – a methodology to design out cost of your piece-parts. The real rain maker is Design for Assembly (DFA) which eliminates parts altogether (50%......
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