by Mary McDonald | Apr 11, 2016 | Lean
A Kaizen event (also sometimes called a Kaizen blitz) is a focused short-term project to kick off process improvement; and is used to pull all the “right” people together for a short time period (typically, a week), in order to identify the current...
by Mary McDonald | Mar 7, 2016 | Lean
What are the 7 wastes in Lean? Lean implementation focuses on eliminating the 7 wastes (now expanded to 8 wastes) as identified in any process. These are the wastes of: over-production, waiting, transportation, processing itself, stocks [inventories], motion, and...
