Common mistakes in lean management
Thomas Bertels, managing partner of Valeocon Management Consulting, and Rizwan Khan, vice president of continuous improvement at Lincoln Financial Grou…
Tag: lean management
Applying LSS for sustainability
Balasaheb Bhau Albhar, is the head of quality and EHS MBB at Umicore Autocat India Pvt. (European MNC) and in this article explores issues of green and…
Out of the blue: In search of excellence
Bill Bellows presents his new column, Out of the blue which highlights concepts associated with an integration of ideas from W. Edwards Deming, Russell…
How to make lean work: Back to basics – the rights and wrongs of 5S
Cimlogic’s LSS black belt, Keith Findlay presents a practical guide to assuring success and resisting the temptation to overcomplicate. It’s someth…
Measuring quality
LMJ’s editor Andrew Putwain heads out to National Instrument’s manufacturing facility in Hungary to see how the firm has taken lean to a scientific lev…
Lean accounting
Consultant Jean Cunningham explores the benefits of applying lean principles to a company’s finance.If your company is applying lean on the shop fl…
We’re all lean, right? But what does operational excellence really mean?
Andy Marsh, managing director of Suiko, explores the difference between being lean and achieving excellence.Businesses that have survived the recen…
Sector Focus: Lean apprenticeships – lean for the next generation
Manufacturing has suffered a lot of bad press over the years, and here in the UK our politicians in all their infinite wisdom decided making things was…
Lessons from Deming: The brief history of quality, part three
This brief history of quality, would not be complete without sharing a passage from Prophets in the dark, by David Kearns, the former CEO of Xerox: In…